The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

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.

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child fossil skull is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry ...

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 ...

From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit," here are ... Mrs. Ples became the most complete australopithecine skull ever found, dating back 2.35 million years. In 1959, an extremely robust ...

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

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 ...