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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]
Puzzlingly, brain enlargement has been found to have occurred independently in different primate lineages, [78] but only human lineage ended up with an exceptional brain capacity. Fetal head-down posture may be an explanation of this conundrum [1] because Homo sapiens is the only primate obligatory biped with upright posture .
Primate skull series. Humans have had a long interest in the brain and its functions. The first recorded study of the brain and its functions was from a papyrus text written by the ancient Egyptians during the 17th century BCE. The document details 48 medical ailments and makes references to how to deal with head wounds.
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 ...
Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.
The tissue that the human brain is made up of decomposes once the organism has died, so old brain tissue cannot be analysed, [9] however, due to the large percentage that the neomammalian brain takes up in the human brain, estimated to be 76%, [5] comparative anatomy shows that the Homo sapiens has a much larger cranial size than early primate ...
A woman’s skull was discovered inside the walls of a suburban Illinois home back in 1978, and now—almost 50 years later—we finally know her name. Esther Granger was identified by the Kane ...
The skull of a teen from the 1800s was found 46 years ago during home renovations in Batavia, Illinois. With the help of advanced technology and DNA matches, the cold case has finally been solved.