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The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature in 1925. The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand. [1]
The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sensory nervous system ...
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An estate auction transformed into a heated challenge to the legality of selling what was labeled a human skull originating in North America around the year 1400.
The brain of a chimpanzee has been measured at a general range of 282–500 cm 3. [37] The human brain, in contrast, is about three times larger, with a reported average volume of about 1330 cm 3. [38] Chimpanzees reach puberty between the age of eight and ten years. [39]
Anthropologist Tony Kail, who talked to Jones about the photos of the skull, agreed. Kail has a master’s degree in cultural anthropology and has written books on African-Latin religious traditions.
The brain is the most well-protected organ in the human body, but it has a surprisingly high amount of microplastic pollution, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday.
Like other archaic humans, the skull is low and long, with massively developed brow ridges, wide eye sockets, and a large mouth. The skull is the longest ever found from any human species. Like modern humans, the face is rather flat, but with a larger nose. The brain volume was 1,420 cc, within the range of modern humans and Neanderthals.