Century After Its Discovery, Taung Child Still Puzzles Paleoanthropologists

Century after Its Discovery, Taung Child Still Puzzles Paleoanthropologists

A century after a small fossil skull from a South African limestone quarry changed ideas about human origins, it remains the only specimen that can be called, without dispute, Australopithecus africanus. The post Century after Its Discovery, Taung Child Still Puzzles Paleoanthropologists appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

A child’s fossil may reveal a more crowded early human family tree

A child who lived roughly three million years ago may have had fewer close relatives among southern Africa’s best-known fossils than scientists once thought. A new analysis suggests that several fossils grouped with the Taung Child could belong to different branches of the human family tree. The Taung Child was found in South Africa in […]