Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925.

It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa, which became known as the Taung child skull. The paper's author, an Australian-born anatomist called Raymond Dart, argued that ...

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 ...

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 ...