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...bear an uncanny resemblance to skulls from the hominid genus Australopithecus, which lived in Africa from roughly 4 million to 1.5 million years ago. The best-known australopithecene fossils are the 3.2 million-year-old A. afarensis Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia, and the 3 million-year-old A. africanus Taung Child, unearthed in South Africa. (See pictures of South Africa, fifteen years...
...problem is, the only early hominids found outside Africa are Homo erectus, the earliest of which date to 1.9 million years ago - about a million years after Lucy, Taung and their ilk. If Flo so closely resembles Lucy and Taung, her ancestors may have emigrated from Africa back when those famous kin were still around...
...FIRST DISCOVERED] Taung, South Africa...
...Taungs skull resembles the skulls of both young boys and young chimpanzees. That is not surprising because baby humans, chimpanzees and gorillas resemble each other. That resemblance furnishes one of the presumptions of man's common origin with apes. The Southern boy-ape looked more like a chimpanzee than like any human race known today. But he carried his head and body 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...
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