He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material ... It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery ...

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 ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who was at a stage of development of a present-day six year old.

Inside the box, he found a fossilized mold of a brain and a matching child’s skull partially buried in stone ... The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung Child” or “Taung Baby,” as Dart called ...

In them, he discovered the skull of what would become known as the “Taung Child.” Though the fossil exhibited apelike features, the position of the foramen magnum, or the opening that allows ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic. Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk ...

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 ...

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 was at ...