The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
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From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relatives
In spite of its inauspicious discovery, after the skull was reassembled, Mrs. Ples became the most complete australopithecine skull ever found, dating back 2.35 million years. In 1959, an ...
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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...
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Our Ancestors Were Vegetarian, Archaeologists Find
It has been debated whether this skull belonged to Paranthropus or Australopithecus: two types of hominin. This skull is a replica of the Robust Ape Man, discovered in 1938 in South Africa.
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Origins of the Human Race
The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ...
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Taung Child
Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who was at a stage of development of a present-day six year old. (Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than ...
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Image of the Day: Slow-Growing Brains
Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...
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Is This Great Ape an Ancestor of Mankind?
These species of Australopithecus are known for their robustness. Their temporal muscle was attached to their fully developed skull crest. This feature, combined with massive cheek teeth ...