Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung child skull, 100 years since its discovery.

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

A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a ...

The study was published in a special issue of the journal celebrating the 100th anniversary of the study that described "Taung Child." Taung Child was an ancient child's skull that was uncovered ...

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But Lucy is just one of many famous hominin fossils. From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit," here are some of the most iconic fossils that have transformed what we know about human evolution and ...

Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...

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 ...