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How old are South African fossils like the Taung Child? New study offers an answer

By Francis Thackeray, Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
One hundred years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa’s North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand, who first described it. In 1924 Dart could not say exactly how old it was, but he announced that it belonged to a new species which he named Australopithecus…The Conversation


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