Henry McHenry
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Professor of anthropology, University of California, Davis.
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Taung child, the first discovered fossil of Australopithecus africanus. Exhumed by miners in South Africa in 1924, the fossil was recognized as a primitive hominin (member of the human lineage) by paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart. The Taung specimen is a natural cast of the inside of the skull and…
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