Cho đến nay, người ta vẫn cho rằng tổ tiên của loài người tiến hoá từ loài vượn ở châu Phi, nhưng từ những hoá thạch khai quật ở Myanmar, nhà nhân chủng học Chris Beard lại cho rằng quá trình này xảy ra tại châu Á. | ORIGINS Broom was so excited by news of Dart s discovery that he rushed off to view the Taung child. Dart later recalled that Broom burst into my laboratory unannounced. Ignoring me and my strnde over to ths bench whenr nUn skull repesee uni droecud to hie knees in oUouenion ef oue anuas-tor. 26 Broom dig morn nhau admire Beeu s fie wneundno discoverntustrafonUhe on fossils like Dart s anOhe way than Who sImiiar to Dart s experienBU. In I9ar B norm arsrd tear Sosh Sils wereturningnu at a limestone quarry at a place caitee durrk-fontein nsar Broome Oh me in South Afrirn r Tran -vaai Puovircu. Roberi Sroom Broom isheU hhe Uvrcmsn oS shd lime works to save fossils for him and a fewHry- later she foremun handed over u lump of rock that Broom recotniznS vsan e-u anrueial cast. It we a fossilized mode i nd a b aHn very mucu I ỉke the on e Dart dud receivedfeom the Ta un glimewnsP-. Sroom huenU sothuqrdrre Uen through the pi u avd v Lasdsdron e hnU foa vdniee euoC e -Pd i. Hu waseu r-tain that hehadashee edu rvmaiusoeaa s c shn ldteS Un DarteAur-tra opft hywenhn hr neo-en ahunthh Stei-kfontein individuei erssdrderdvfahoekhfromrVeTauugrpecimen uo Vyekrvh Or own genus anr spedes. Hu eviiddisP u-íhatUoul r-trkusvku nrs -r ndar-mun from theTronfovaI. BroomexceoltedktherledrituỉPv us in 1947 he and foifow ralsontologist John Robinson made an especially se LUCY AND HER KIN exciting find a nearly complete skull. It was smaller than the 1936 Ple-sianthropus skull. In many ape species males are significantly larger than females and Broom thought that the same might be true of Pkrsieornirc f uo He suggested thait the new shall coeld heae some faom a fossil soon gaieea tOunicknamh therois noproofthot the skull itfemhie she entMib utillalivei SOIOM vi ewma ors l dlOr . s into ninetyeoau pOtuaona eoomeatese Southmnsicaer lieterkate dOhk South A A .
