The first early hominid from Africa, the Taung child, as it was known, was a juvenile member of Australopithecus ... old fossil was the first of many hominids the Leakeys, their son Richard ...

They were presumably made by members of the species Australopithecus afarensis ... it is clear that the Rubicon early hominids crossed was not the large brain or toolmaking, but bipedality.

(Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines ... With the discovery of several more Australopithecus fossils in 1936 and 1947, this time of adult specimens, Dart's view began to see acceptance.

Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These prehistoric beings were far removed from the modern humans that would come to dominate the planet.

The Taung and other fossils—more primitive than Eurasian hominids but still possessing human characteristics, such as the ability to walk upright—compelled early-hominid hunters to shift their ...

leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes ... The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa ...