Dart judged Taung to be a six-year-old child with a cranial capacity (a proxy for brain size) of 520 cubic centimetres 4. He also estimated the fossil’s age to be about one million years.

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who ...

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 ...

(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 ...