Taung Child
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The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature in 1925.
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Catalog no. | Taung 1 |
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Common name | Taung Child |
Species | Australopithecus africanus |
Age | ~2.8 mya; 3.3 years when deceased |
Place discovered | Taung, South Africa |
Date discovered | 1924 |
Discovered by | Raymond Dart |
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The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand.[1] Dean Falk, a specialist in brain evolution, has called it "the most important anthropological fossil of the twentieth century."[2]