Arthur Keith

Arthur Keith, among Britain's most powerful anatomists, dismissed Raymond Dart's 1925 claim that the Taung child skull was an early human relative, calling it closer to an ape. As Robert Broom found adult australopithecine fossils in South Africa, Keith changed his view, and in 1947 he wrote publicly that Dart had been right and he had been wrong. He had also been among those taken in by the Piltdown hoax, exposed in 1953.