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Taung

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Research highlight: Brain of the Taung Child

A new study of the endocast discovered a hundred years ago asks, what if we found this fossil today?

Four images of the Taung endocast with blue to red curvature mapping,
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The circumstances of the Taung discovery

The textbook story of the fossil leaves out a wider context in which scientists interpreted the first evidence of Australopithecus.

A view of the Taung skull and endocast from right lateral view