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
But as time went on, the evidence began to stack up. Robert Broom, a doctor and anthropologist who had supported Dart back in ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Conversation5d
The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material ... of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature. It was nicknamed the Taung Child ...
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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 ...