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Professor '''Percy George Hamnall Boswell''' (1886–1960) was a British geologist. |
Professor '''Percy George Hamnall Boswell''' (1886–1960) was a British geologist. |
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He was Professor of Geo;ogy at Liverpool University. He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in May, 1931. |
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In 1934 he visited Africa to validate [[Louis Leakey]]'s claim that he had found fossil remains of Homo Sapiens more than 100,000 years old and publicly disagreed with Leakey's conclusions. |
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Revision as of 01:21, 18 December 2010
Professor Percy George Hamnall Boswell (1886–1960) was a British geologist.
He was Professor of Geo;ogy at Liverpool University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1931.
In 1934 he visited Africa to validate Louis Leakey's claim that he had found fossil remains of Homo Sapiens more than 100,000 years old and publicly disagreed with Leakey's conclusions.