Australopithecus Africanus, an extinct (fossil) species of the australopithecines, the first of an early ape-form species to be classified as hominin (in 1924). dated as living between and million years ago, or in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times; it is debated as being a direct ancestor of modern humans. This skull was found at Taung, South Africa

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