The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

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 was at ...

The study was published in a special issue of the journal celebrating the 100th anniversary of the study that described "Taung Child." Taung Child was an ancient child's skull that was uncovered ...

But Lucy is just one of many famous hominin fossils. From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit," here are some of the most iconic fossils that have transformed what we know about human evolution and ...

The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child. The angle at which the child's spine had ...

Meet some of the most famous fossil discoveries of the hominin clan in this slide show. Read "The First Australopithecus," about the discovery of the Taung Child skull in 1925. Lab safety rules ...

But big brains require big energy to power them, and shifting around all our calories to fuel our massive brains was no small feat. From the Taung Child to modern biometrics, here's how we can learn ...

A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a ...