Word: australopithecus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South African evidence is the fossilized skull of a six-year-old beast. Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, found the skull five years ago at Taungs, Bechuanaland, near the west border of the Transvaal. He calls it Australopithecus (Southern...
...higher. His milk teeth, brain and temple bones are closer to the human type than the ape. So Professor Dart boldly reasons that he belonged to a family intermediate between the higher apes and man, was in a way cousin to both. Professor Dart is now looking for an Australopithecus hind foot. If it is more human-like than apelike he will be reasonably certain that the Taung-creature was a late stage in man's evolution...