Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1984
4to (24,8 x 18,4 x 0,4cm) 67pp. Original light orange softcover binding, with black lettering and full-colour portrait of Professor Dart and the Taung child on front cover. With frontispiece and several fine monochrome photographs.
Inscribed by the author Philip Tobias.
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. Dean Falk, a specialist in brain evolution, has called it "the most important anthropological fossil of the twentieth century." (wikipedia.com)
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