John Edmonstone
Edmonstone gave Darwin inspiring accounts of tropical rain forests in South America and may have encouraged him to explore there. The taxidermy Darwin learnt from Edmonstone helped him greatly during…
Taung Child
The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus.
Lucy (Australopithecus)
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of fossilized bone.
Ardi
Ardi was not the first fossil of A. ramidus to come to light. The first ones were found in Ethiopia in 1992, but it took 17 years to assess their…