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Davidson Black, FRS (July 25, – March 15, ) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo....
Davidson Black
Canadian anthropologist
Davidson Black, FRS[1] (July 25, 1884 – March 15, 1934) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis).
He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as 步達生 (pinyin: Bù Dáshēng) in China.
Early years, family and education
Black was born in 1884, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Davidson Black (July 25, – March 15, ) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist who spent many years searching for early human fossils in China.
When he was a child, he would spend many summers near or on the Kawartha lakes. As a teenager, he would carry heavy loads of supplies for the Hudson's Bay Company. He also enjoyed collecting fossils along the banks of the Don River.
He also became friends with First Nations people, and learned one First Nations language. Black also searched unsuccessfully for gold along the Kawartha lakes.
Black showed an interest in biology at an early age, despite being born to a family associated with the legal profession.[2]