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3-Million-Year-Old Taung Child Once Again Shakes up Our Human Family Tree
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For a century, a fossil from South Africa has been regarded as a benchmark for the prehuman species Australopithecus africanus. New comparisons of teeth and skull interior suggest, however, that several findings previously attributed to this species do not fit the Taung child. New age and climate data at the same time help to classify the changing habitats of these early human relatives. Brussels (Belgium). The Taung child is one of the [...] Di…
A small child skull, found in South Africa in 1924, has just gained a precise age: between 2.96 and 3.03 million...
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