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Taung Child - the Controversial Story of the Fossil Discovery That Proved Humanity's Common Origins in Africa - Podcast [analysis]
One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in ...
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The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
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 ...
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The First Australopithecus, 1925
Australian anatomy professor Raymond Dart was adjusting the collar of his dress suit in preparation for a friend’s wedding when a box, shipped from a limestone quarry near Taung, South Africa, arrived ...
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Taung Child
With a brain larger than a chimp's but smaller than a human's, it was a true missing link. Raymond Dart, the discoverer of the Taung child, realized its significance. But because the skulls of ...
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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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Tannehill shows off accuracy on sideline dart to Kalif Raymond
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