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It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery ... They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate.

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

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 ...

that a famous and controversial two-million-year-old hominid fossil skull from a South Africa limestone quarry, known as the Taung child, belonged to one of mankind’s distant ancestors.

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 ...

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material ... It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery site and its young age. Dart is portrayed as prescient in most ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart , acquired a block of calcified sediment from a ...

John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says Australopithecus, and the Taung skull specifically, combined three things in a way that no scientists had predicted.

Dart’s report of the fossilized skull and matching endocast — an internal ... In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously unknown group of bipedal human ...

Dart, who taught anatomy, guessed that the skull had belonged to a primate ... This time around, though, his theory was wrong. The Taung Child, scientists now believe, lived around three million ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found the skull of a “missing link” between ancient apes and humans.