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The Taung Child discovery in 1924, initially dismissed by the scientific community, later validated Africa's significance in human origins. However, the research's colonial context led to ...

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 ...

The anthropologist who analyzed the fossil, dubbed the Taung Child, believed it was an ancestor of modern-day humans – but it would be another 20 years before he would be widely believed.

The boxes contained what would become one of the world’s most famous fossils, the Taung Child. 100 years of Australopithecus In just a few weeks — astonishingly — Dart was able to use this ...