Missing Link Skull
Missing link skull between ape and man. Dart came to the world's attention in 1925 with his announced discovery of the skull he named Australopithecus africanus, (South African ape). He had chanced on the skull of a 5-year-old child with baby teeth intact and adult molars just breaking through. Dart had found the skull a year earlier in bones embedded in limestone at South Africa's Cape Province near the village of Taungs. In fact, the creature came to be known commonly as the Taungs child
Picture No
13744109
Media ID
46791600
Size
2222px x 3329px
(1.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph, The Sphere, March 7 , 1925, p264
Date
1925
