The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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The Taung Child: 100 Years Ago, A “Missing Link” Between Humans And Apes Was Revealed
It had been unearthed in a limestone quarry near the village of Taung, South Africa, and was still partly encased in rock ...
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‘Taung Child’ fossil offers clues about the evolution of childhood
In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously ... the discovery of more australopithecine fossils in South Africa before scientists began to accept his ...
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The discovery that Africa is the birthplace of human evolution
South Africa. 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 scienti ...
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The Fossil Skull That Rocked the World - 100 Years Later Scientists Are Grappling With the Taung Find's Complex Colonial Legacy [analysis]
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...