Ever since the discovery of Australopithecus africanus and the recovery of associated fauna indicative of open habitats, it has been posited that the origin of bipedality in our lineage had its ...

It belonged to a juvenile member of the species Australopithecus africanus who was later nicknamed the Taung Child. The skull conclusively demonstrated that Africa was the birthplace of humankind.

For years scientists believed the Australopithecus africanus species, whose fossils were discovered in the Sterkfontein caves near Johannesburg, had been less than 2.6 million years old.

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.Dart was ...

For Australopithecus africanus, on the other hand, Raymond Dart assumed a height of 1.25 meters and a weight of 25 to 30 kilograms. Early man was small and weak. Other researchers were influenced ...

Australopithecus africanus lived approximately 3.3 to 2 million years ago, primarily discovered in South Africa. Also bipedal ...

He named the fossil Australopithecus africanus, which means "southern ape from Africa." However, it took nearly 20 years for the scientific community to accept the find, in part because the ...

It belonged to a juvenile member of the species Australopithecus africanus who was later nicknamed the Taung Child. The skull conclusively demonstrated that Africa was the birthplace of humankind. It ...

It belonged to a juvenile member of the species Australopithecus africanus who was later nicknamed the Taung Child. The skull conclusively demonstrated that Africa was the birthplace of humankind.