The hobbit, along with the subsequent discovery of two other small-bodied and small-brained hominins who lived relatively recently — Homo naledi in South Africa and Homo luzonensis in the ...
From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit," here are some of the most ... discovered by Raymond Dart in South Africa in 1924. He named the fossil Australopithecus africanus, which means "southern ...