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Appalled and embittered, Dubois withdrew into an undistinguished position as a professor of geology at the University of Amsterdam and for the next two decades refused to let anyone examine his precious fossils again. He died in 1940 an unhappy man. Meanwhile, and half a world away, in late 1924 Raymond Dart, the Australian-born head of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, was sent a small but remarkably complete skull of a child, with an intact face, a lower jaw, and what is known as an endocast-a natural cast of the brain-from a limestone quarry on the edge of the Kalahari Desert at a dusty spot called Taung. Dart could see at once that the Taung skull was not of a Homo erectus like DuboisБЂ™s Java Man, but from an earlier, more apelike creature. He placed its age at two million years and dubbed it Australopithecus africanus, or БЂњsouthern ape man of Africa.БЂ«In a report to Nature, Dart called the Taung remains БЂњamazingly humanБЂ«and suggested the need for an entirely new family, Homo simiadae (БЂњthe man-apesБЂ«), to accommodate the find ...»