The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus
Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...
Nature7d
Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...
IFLScience9d
The Taung Child: 100 Years Ago, A “Missing Link” Between Humans And Apes Was Revealed
In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...
Public Radio International5d
A century since the roots of human lineage were traced to Africa
It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...
Reuters27d
Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy ... are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual ...
NDTV23d
Australopithecus Fossil
a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much research there is uncertainty over what could have led to their death. A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her ...
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Early ancestor diet revealed: Australopithecus relied on plants, not meat
The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy ... are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual ...
NDTV23d
Was Meat On The Menu For Early Human Ancestors? Study Says...
The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The ... members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual ...
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The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus ...