Taung: A Fossil to Rival Piltdown - The Fossil Chronicles - page 27

Figure 4. Taung's face, lower jaw, and natural endocast viewed from the right
side. Courtesy of Bernhard Zipfel, the University of the Witwatersrand.
human features.” 25 Despite his caution in this matter, Dart was aware
that Taung was extremely different from living apes, not only because
of its intermediary features, but also because the central location where
the spinal cord entered the bottom of the skull suggested a humanlike
habit of walking on two legs rather than using all four limbs, as apes do
on the ground.
One of Dart's most significant observations was that Taung lived
nearly 2,000 miles south of the luxuriant forests where contemporary
chimpanzees and gorillas live, which he thought indicated increased