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Australopithecus africanus and Taung Child

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Difference between Australopithecus africanus and Taung Child

Australopithecus africanus vs. Taung Child

Australopithecus africanus is an extinct (fossil) species of the australopithecines, the first of an early ape-form species to be classified as hominin (in 1924). The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus.

Similarities between Australopithecus africanus and Taung Child

Australopithecus africanus and Taung Child have 18 things in common (in Unionpedia): Ape, Arthur Keith, Australopithecus africanus, Chimpanzee, Endocast, Foramen magnum, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, List of fossil sites, List of human evolution fossils, Paranthropus robustus, Phillip V. Tobias, Piltdown Man, Raymond Dart, Robert Broom, South Africa, Taung, University of the Witwatersrand.

Ape

Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid primates native to Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Arthur Keith

Sir Arthur Keith FRS (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism.

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Australopithecus africanus

Australopithecus africanus is an extinct (fossil) species of the australopithecines, the first of an early ape-form species to be classified as hominin (in 1924).

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Chimpanzee

The taxonomical genus Pan (often referred to as chimpanzees or chimps) consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo.

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Endocast

An endocast is the internal cast of a hollow object, often referring to the cranial vault in the study of brain development in humans and other organisms.

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Foramen magnum

The foramen magnum (great hole) is a large oval opening (foramen) in the occipital bone of the skull in humans and various other animals.

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Hominidae

The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.

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Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens is the systematic name used in taxonomy (also known as binomial nomenclature) for the only extant human species.

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List of fossil sites

This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.

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List of human evolution fossils

The following tables give a brief overview of several notable hominin fossil finds relating to human evolution beginning with the formation of the Hominini tribe in the late Miocene (roughly 6 million years ago).

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Paranthropus robustus

Paranthropus robustus (or Australopithecus robustus) is an early hominin, originally discovered in Southern Africa in 1938.

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Phillip V. Tobias

Phillip Vallentine Tobias FRS (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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Piltdown Man

The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human.

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Raymond Dart

Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province Northwest.

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Robert Broom

Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866, Paisley – 6 April 1951) was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Taung

Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa.

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University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg.

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The list above answers the following questions

Australopithecus africanus and Taung Child Comparison

Australopithecus africanus has 57 relations, while Taung Child has 59. As they have in common 18, the Jaccard index is 15.52% = 18 / (57 + 59).

References

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