Forty years ago in east Africa, a team of scientists found a fossil that changed our understanding of human evolution

The Taung Child (Credit: The Natural History Museum, London)
Regardless of the way that she was another species, Lucy was not the principle Australopithecus found. That was the Taung Child, the fossilized skull of a young tyke who lived around 2.8 million years back in Taung, South Africa. The Taung Child was found in 1924 and was considered by anatomist Raymond Dart. He comprehended that it had a place with another creature classifications, which he called Australopithecus africanus.