In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Today — a century on — the fossil is still prompting questions about human evolution. In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously unknown group of bipedal ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

HERI, Author provided (no reuse) Tawane is a palaeoanthropologist and grew up in the Taung municipality. She and her co-authors argue that, a century after the discovery of the fossil, there is ...

an anthropologist who spent most of his working life describing the first hominin fossil to have been found, Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil ...

This is the Taung Child fossil at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

In 1925, Raymond Dart found the Taung skull, a fossil in South Africa that he believed was the earliest human ancestor (now known as Australopithecus). But few people accepted his find ...

The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child. The angle at which the child's spine had ...