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	Phillip V. Tobias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Phillip Vallentine Tobias was born in Durban, Natal in 1925.
		Tobias was appointed Honorary Professor of Palaeoanthropology at the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research in 1977 and Honorary Professor in Zoology in 1981.
		Tobias received his Bachelor of Science Degrees in Histology and Physiology in 1946-1947.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/tobias_phillip.html (287 words)

	:: PROF TOBIAS TURNS 80 :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was a delightful evening, with Tobias sitting at the front table in a dapper bowtie and jacket, with his illustrious guests and their partners: Minister of Education Naledi Pandor; Judge Edwin Cameron, chairperson of the Wits Council; Professor Loyiso Nongxa, vice-chancellor of Wits; and Professor William Makgoba, vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
		Tobias, born in Durban on 14 October 1925, is acknowledged worldwide as an expert in various fields: anatomy, human biology and palaeoanthropology, three professorships he held simultaneously at Wits.
		Tobias was one of a "handful of scientists that were instrumental in persuading the world to accept, and celebrate, that Africa is indeed the Cradle of Humankind.
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/oct/oct20_tobias.stm (1211 words)

	Tobias: giant of science turns 80 - SouthAfrica.info
		Tobias was drawn into the study of fossils by Mary and Louis Leakey, who asked him to write a description of a hominid skull they discovered in Olduvai gorge in Tanzania.
		Tobias was active in initiating the first anti-apartheid campaign in the universities of South Africa as early as 1949, as president of the nonracial National Union of South African Students.
		Tobias was a recipient of the Balzan International Prize, the first time it was awarded for accomplishments in physical anthropology; the LSB Leakey Prize; the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, the only South African to receive this award since its inception; and the Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/scitech/tobias.htm (1456 words)

	Phillip Vallentine Tobias
		Phillip Tobias, professor emeritus of anatomy and human biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, is born in Durban.
		Tobias started working in Sterkfontein when he was an undergraduate student and has continued his work there until his retirement.
		In 1990, Tobias retired from his duties as the Head of the Anatomy and Human Biology Department but retained his position as Director of the Sterkfontein Research Unit and his other duties of supervising PhD student.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/people/tobias-pv.htm (214 words)

	Sunday Independent: 'Set me down in the valley full of bones'
		Tobias, who was elected president of the National Union of South African Students (Nusas) in 1948 and launched the first anti-apartheid campaign in South African universities, sympathised with the American protesters.
		Tobias speaks of the lack of political will, "although much of the ongoing crisis is the realisation of what was prognosticated all those years ago".
		Tobias explains that part of his philosophising has been to search for the synthesis between science and faith, science and religion "because spirituality is a component of mankind, it has evolved as our brains have evolved, just as artistry became a spin-off of one's evolving brain, just as spoken language became another spin-off.
	sundayindependent.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2899887&fSectionId=1041 (2388 words)

	Report
		Tobias did not espouse the aquatic ape hypothesis as a primary cause for for instance our bipedalism, since there are other theories, but to his knowledge no other hypothesis could explain those several physiological and biochemical characteristics which seem to ally us to aquatic (marine?) mammals.
		Tobias' words: 'There are two ways in which a new idea in science is rejected: one is by direct confrontation and attempts to refute it, the other is by turning a blind eye to it and hoping that it will simply go away" (Tobias, 1998).
		Tobias urged to state that the present-day fossil hominid record consists of hundreds of different well-documented individuals and that there is general agreement that australopithecines and Homo have more in common than australopithecines and Pan/Gorilla.
	users.ugent.be /~mvaneech/Report.html (3741 words)

	www.past.co.za \| media A future for the past
		At Phillip Tobias' request, he arranged for the blocks from the Silberberg Grotto to be brought to the surface where the abundant fossils, mostly of baboons and carnivores, were chipped from the limestone matrix by the Sterkfontein field team.
		The congress, under the chairmanship of Phillip Tobias, was attended by about 600 delegates from 70 countries and represented a celebration of the re-acceptance of South Africa into the wide world of international science.
		Phillip Tobias was appointed the Trust's chief scientific adviser and Lee Berger its executive officer.
	www.past.co.za /media/903136.htm (3165 words)

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		Professor Phillip Tobias was the host of a recent South African television series on human evolution.
		Tobias, left, is seen with Dart on the latter's 85th birthday in 1978.
		Tobias had this to say: "I am one of those who, for many years, have claimed that the study of mankind's past may help one to foresee the future.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2003/03/21/editoria/LP1.HTM (1036 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing
		Tobias is finalising the launch of the first volume of his autobiography, conducting media interviews, and attending a host of events honouring his long career, yet he still supervises students.
		Tobias is a lateral thinker with a meticulous eye for detail, and has a remarkable ability to weave fragmented pieces of information into a bigger picture, says long-standing friend and fellow scientist Dr Frances Thakeray, of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria.
		Tobias is still outspoken, urging South African scientists to play a more active role in challenging the politics of the day, particularly on the debates raging around the science of HIV and its treatment.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/national.aspx?ID=BD4A101043 (1037 words)

	Aquatic Ape Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To mark his 70th birthday five years ago, Tobias urged his fellow palaeoanthropologists to ditch one of the central dogmas of human evolution--the notion that our ancestors made their first great advance towards human form by swinging out of the forest and into the open savannah, where they began walking upright.
		Tobias is not yet sure whether water played a decisive role in the initial split between human and chimp ancestors.
		Tobias argues that the theory should be renamed, perhaps as "water and human evolution".
	www.cise.ufl.edu /~nantonio/aquatic_ape_theory.htm (2939 words)

	Phillip Tobias to lecture as professor-at-large (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Phillip Valentine Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric human ancestors, will give a lecture on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m.
		Tobias is professor of anatomy and human biology emeritus and honorary director of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
		Tobias, 71, has been honored for his work in many areas, including hominid paleontology, human biological diversity and genetics, skeletal biology and comparative anatomy.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/97/4.10.97/prof-at-large.html (396 words)

	DARWINISM-WATCH.com - Responding Evolutionist Propaganda in the Media
		Tobias states that these two discoveries belong to a period in which no hominid discoveries had been made previously.
		Tobias refers to the Swedish Ulfur Arnason's research and states that with the S.tchadensis fossil, Arnason's dating method must be adopted.
		So the story about the apes becoming "twofeeters" in the savannah had to be binned and instead the thesis of apes learning to stand on two feet whilst balancing on trees was adopted whereby they were already able to walk upright when they descended from the trees.
	www.darwinism-watch.com /die_zeit_030329.php (1794 words)

	NGUBANE: EFFORTS TO HAVE REMAINS OF SAARTJE BAARTMAN RETURNED
		Tobias on the problems encountered during his negotiations with de Lumley, I have indicated my wish, through consultation with President Mbeki, to explore the possibility of direct and high level negotiations with the French Government.
		Tobias was of opinion that the request for the return of the remains of Saartje Baartman was a special one.
		Tobias, remain fully committed to having the remains of Ms Baartman returned to the country of her birth.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2000/001010110p1003.htm (813 words)

	Professor Phillip Tobias: A Short Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Phillip Tobias is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School.
		Internationally, Tobias is one of the most renowned South African scientists and probably the most highly honoured.
		Tobias was active in initiating the anti-apartheid campaign in the universities of South Africa from 1949, in his capacity as President of the non-racial National Union of South African Students.
	www.roundtable.wits.ac.za /tobias.htm (782 words)

	RSSA Newsletter July 2002
		TWO Honorary Professorships in the Peoples’ Republic of China were conferred on Emeritus Professor Phillip V. Tobias of the Wits School of Anatomical Sciences, during his visit to China in March 2002.
		This is the highest honour that the government of Austria awards for scientific achievements and it has been given to Tobias for his researches on the evolution of humankind in Africa.
		Professor Tobias has been a Foreign Associate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1978 and he is an Honorary Professor in Human Biology of the University of Vienna.
	web.uct.ac.za /org/rssa/newslets/02-jul.htm (1644 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		PROFESSOR Phillip Tobias, world-renowned palaeontologist and one of SA's most honoured scientists, celebrates 60 remarkable years at Wits Medical School this week.
		Tobias has also been instrumental in having the Sterkfontein caves, where world-famous fossil Mr Ples was found in 1947, declared a World Heritage site.
		Tobias believes that research from this site and other ancient hominid sites in Kenya, Tanzania, Israel, Indonesia and China was his most significant contribution to the field of palaeontology.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2004/08/01/news/news23.asp (304 words)

	Wits Alumni Newsletter #24: May 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Prof Tobias said several academics spent the years between 1925, when the discovery of the skull now known as the "Taung skull" as published, and the last 1980's proving the humanness of Australopithecus.
		Professor Tobias was honoured by the University of Vienna as Honorary Professor of Human Biology in perpetuity.
		The honour was announced in Vienna at the launch of the Phillip V Tobias 1st Annual Lectures to be delivered at the university each year.
	www.wits.ac.za /alumni/news24.shtml (3546 words)

	Sunday Times - lifestyle - 04 Feb 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		World-famous South African palaeontologist Professor Phillip Tobias has welcomed the report as ground-breaking, but, he says, although modern man may have evolved outside of Africa, his predecessors were African.
		Tobias, a pioneer evolutionist who helped "discover" a species of early man that he and fossil expert Louis Leakey called Homo habilis, says the human fossils discovered in Africa were significantly older than those found elsewhere.
		Chinese scientists, Tobias says, always maintained that modern man evolved in Asia, a view backed up recently by Australian anthropologist Alan Thorne, one of the authors of the groundbreaking DNA research.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2001/02/04/lifestyle/life01.htm (792 words)

	Mr. Ples Throws Scientists Into A Tizzy
		Ples, found by Alun Hughes and Phillip Tobias in South Africa in 1989, is 2.6 to 2.8 million years old and is thought to have belonged to an australopithecine.
		The work was supported by a grant to Conroy from the National Science Foundation and grants to Tobias for the excavation at Sterkfontein from the Foundation for Research Development (Pretoria) and the Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg).
		Conroy GC, Weber GW, Seidler H, Tobias PV, Kane A, Brunsden B. Endocranial capacity in a new early hominid cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-06/WUSo-MPTS-120698.php (804 words)

	Department: Science and Technology, South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The research contribution by the South African world renowned Prof Phillip Tobias in the fields of genetics through anatomical studies to pealaeonthropology led the country's Department of Science and Technology to establish an annual lecture in his honour.
		This lecture is to be known as the Phillip Tobias Lecture where prominent professionals and governments' representatives from all over the world will be invited to be keynote speakers.
		The inaugural Phillip Tobias Lecture and Award was held on the 2nd of November in 2004, read the foreword by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Mosibudi Mangena.
	www.dst.gov.za /tobias/index.php (210 words)

	:: PROF TOBIAS RECEIVES WALTER SISULU AWARD:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		During his academic career at Wits University, Tobias played a leading role in initiating anti-apartheid campaigns at universities and in keeping universities open to students and academic staff of colour.
		The 80-year-old palaeontologist is honorary professor of palaeoanthropology at Wits University and honorary professorial research associate and director of the Sterkfontein Research Unit.
		Paying tribute to Tobias on behalf of Executive Mayor Councillor Amos Masondo, Mayathula-Khoza said, "It is a past that undoubtedly owes much to its allied fields of palaeoanthropology and evolutionary biology, which jointly have contributed to the recognition of Africa as the veritable Cradle of Humankind.
	www.joburg.org.za /2006/jan/jan16_tobias.stm (606 words)

	M Mangena: Inaugural of Phillip Tobias Lecture
		The contribution to research by Professor Philip Tobias in the fields of genetics, through anatomical studies to palaeo-anthropology is well known.
		It is this contribution that has led the Department of Science and Technology to establish an annual lecture, to be known as the Professor Philip Tobias Lecture, to honour Professor Tobias.
		The idea is to invite prominent scholars in the science and technology field from all over the world to share their experiences and knowledge with the South African community.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2004/04111609151003.htm (317 words)

	Phillip V. Tobias Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Phillip V. Tobias Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
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		Vol.2, The cranium and maxillary dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) Boisei /by P.V. Tobias ;with a foreword by Sir W.E. Le Gros Clark
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Phillip_V_Tobias (174 words)

	New Scientist Premium- A journey towards human origins: Phillip Tobias set out to become a geneticist and evolved ...
		New Scientist Premium- A journey towards human origins: Phillip Tobias set out to become a geneticist and evolved instead into an anti-apartheid campaigner and leading light in the study of the beginnings of the human species - Features
		A journey towards human origins: Phillip Tobias set out to become a geneticist and evolved instead into an anti-apartheid campaigner and leading light in the study of the beginnings of the human species
		There is a joke making the rounds in academic circles on the subject of Phillip Vallentine Tobias, winner of the first Leakey Foundation prize for multidisciplinary research in ape and human evolution.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg13217914.700.html (271 words)

	Sterkfontein's old, old bones - SouthAfrica.info
		Three million years of human activity have taken place in and around these caves, including man's earliest-known mastery of fire, and forty percent of all the world's human ancestor fossils have been found here.
		Listening to Professor Philip Tobias (right) during a visit the Sterkfontein Caves during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (from left to right): South African President Thabo Mbeki, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Mrs Annan, primatologist Jane Goodall, and Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
		Little Foot, an almost complete ape-man skeleton that could be just over 4 million years old, the first pieces - footbones - of which were found by Ronald Clarke and Phillip Tobias in 1995 (the bones had lain in a box since the late 1970s, when they were excavated).
	www.safrica.info /heritage/sterkfontein.htm (1218 words)

	Deep Thought
		Science à GoGo went straight to Phillip Tobias, Director Emeritus of the Palaeonthropology Research Unit.
		His leg action on the court may be quaint, if not cool, but certainly not as eye-catching as the bowling action of the South African spin bowler Paul Adams.
		When researchers announced earlier this month that Mr Ples, a relative of early humans, had a smaller brain than previously expected, the scientific world was thrown into a tizzy.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/19980526043742data_trunc_sys.shtml (3108 words)

	Balboa Observer-Picayune: Arrested Development Cast Guide: Phillip Litt
		Phillip Litt: I didn’t see you at the convention.
		Phillip Litt: Okay, everybody, gather around, gather around.
		’Next season on Arrested Development, Tobias leaves Lindsay for a kindred spirit’ —cut to him and Phillip skipping off in the sunset in their cutoffs.
	the-op.com /cast/Phillip+Litt (333 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Phillip V. Tobias
		KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Phillip V. Tobias
		Tobias, P.V. Orígenes evolutivos de la lengua hablada.
		Tobias, P.V. The discovery of Little Foot and the light it sheds on how homindes became bipedal.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/T/TobiasPV.html (71 words)

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