The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with ...
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 ...
IFLScience5 天
The Taung Child: 100 Years Ago, A “Missing Link” Between Humans And Apes Was Revealed
In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...
来自MSN18 小时
In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago
Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.
Nature3 天
The discovery that Africa is the birthplace of human evolution
an anthropologist who spent most of his working life describing the first hominin fossil to have been found, Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil ...
EurekAlert!3 年
The Taung Child Fossil (IMAGE)
This is the Taung Child fossil at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!
Nature3 天
The Taung child: Celebrating 100 years
We celebrate the centenary of Nature’s announcement of the discovery of the Taung child, Australopithecus africanus, a discovery that confirmed Africa as humanity’s cradle and revolutionised ...
PBS2 个月
Finding Lucy:
The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child. The angle at which the child's spine had ...