Percy George Hamnall Boswell
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Professor Percy George Hamnall Boswell FRS (1886–1960) was a British geologist.
He was Professor of Geology at Liverpool University and Head of the Department of Geology at the Imperial College of Science, London
. 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.
He was Professor of Geology at Liverpool University and Head of the Department of Geology at the Imperial College of Science, London
London
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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1931.
In 1934 he visited Africa to validate Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there...
's claim that he had found fossil remains of Homo Sapiens more than 100,000 years old and publicly disagreed with Leakey's conclusions.