Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the ...

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who ...

A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a ...

The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung Child” or “Taung Baby,” as Dart called ... In this webinar, Kevin J. Tracey and Lawrence Steinman will discuss how researchers study the immunology of the brain and its ...

which became known as the Taung child skull. The paper's author, an Australian-born anatomist called Raymond Dart, argued that the fossil was a new species of hominin called Australopithecus ...