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WIDESPREAD interest has been aroused among the general public by the publication of Prof. Dart's account of the discovery of A ustralopithecus africanus, or the Taungs Man, as the Press has elected to call Mm, in last week's issue of NATURE. Although the discovery dated from November last, the news had been carefully guarded, and it was only when a cable owas received in England on February 4, and appeared in the Press on the following day, on the eve of the publication of the article in NATURE, that it became known. Notwithstanding the absence of precise details, the importance of the news was at once recognised by the leading London and provincial daily papers, which quoted freely from Prof. Dart's article as soon as it was available. In another part of this issue, Sir Arthur Keith, Prof. G. Elliot Smith and Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth discuss the significance of the discovery.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 115, 239–243 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115239b0
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