# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phillip-v-tobias
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:42:48.255Z

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name: "Phillip V. Tobias"
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description: "Phillip Vallentine Tobias was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences."
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deathDate: "2012-06-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump