Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

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 little (if any) reason for the ...

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 ...

It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa ... It was the first evidence that humanity originated in Africa. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we ...

Tawane is a paleoanthropologist and grew up in the Taung municipality. She and her co-authors argue that, a century after the discovery of the fossil, there is little (if any) reason for the local ...

Previous evidence for human ancestry made use of fossils that bore a closer resemblance ... In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously unknown group of bipedal ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa ... It seemed that Dart had discovered evidence not of human predation but rather ...

Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking ... the genus Australopithecus, named after the “Taung child” whose skull was discovered 100 years ago by workmen in the ...

Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking ... named after the “Taung child” whose skull was discovered 100 years ago by workmen in the South African ...

Lucy the "paleo-rock star" took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking ... named after the "Taung child" whose skull was discovered 100 years ago by workmen in the South African limestone ...

By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish ... estimation methods — launched the modern era of fossil hominid studies. The Taung skull turned researchers’ attention away from ...