This may have a bearing of how we're slowly beginning to understand the specifics
of man's timeline and the branches off it. By the way, that's only if we accept that
we're not one of the branches!
Did This Mysterious Ape-Human Once Live Alongside Our Ancestors?
'After adding Homo naledi to the human family tree, researchers reveal that the species
is younger than it seems. This reconstruction of Homo naledi by paleoartist John Gurche
was crafted from skull remains from the Rising Star cave system's Dinaledi and Lesedi
Chambers.
H. naledi had primitive skeletal features, but the face, skull, and teeth show enough modern
features to justify its placement in the genus Homo...'
By Michael Greshko
Published May 9, 2017
'...A year and a half after adding a puzzling new member to the human family tree, a team
of researchers working in South Africa have offered an additional twist: the species is far
younger than its bizarrely primitive body would suggest, and may have shared the landscape
with early Homo sapiens.
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First discovered in 2013 by two cavers exploring the Rising Star cave system near
Johannesburg, a stunning trove of hominin remains—the single richest fossil site of its
kind ever found in Africa—revealed a tiny-brained species with shoulders and a torso
like an ape’s, but with some unshakably humanlike features as well.
The mosaic’s name: Homo naledi, after the Sesotho word for “star.”
Now, the species’s star shines that much brighter.
In papers published Tuesday in eLife, the team—led by University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
paleoanthropologist Lee Berger—provides an age range for the remains first reported in 2015:
between 236,000 and 335,000 years old.
The team also describes a second chamber within Rising Star that contains yet-undated
H. naledi remains.
If these dates hold, it could mean that while our own species was evolving from other,
large-brained ancestors, a little-brained shadow lineage was lingering on from a much earlier
period, perhaps two million years ago or more.
The proposed age range for the fossils also overlaps with the early Middle Stone Age, fueling
a provocative, though unproven, possibility: that the stone-tool record in South Africa from
that time wasn’t just the handiwork of anatomically modern humans.
“How do you know that these sites that are called [examples of] the rise of modern human
behavior aren’t being made by Homo naledi?” says Berger, who is also a National
Geographic explorer-in-residence. “You can imagine how disruptive that could be.”..'
SOURCE:
of man's timeline and the branches off it. By the way, that's only if we accept that
we're not one of the branches!
Did This Mysterious Ape-Human Once Live Alongside Our Ancestors?
'After adding Homo naledi to the human family tree, researchers reveal that the species
is younger than it seems. This reconstruction of Homo naledi by paleoartist John Gurche
was crafted from skull remains from the Rising Star cave system's Dinaledi and Lesedi
Chambers.
H. naledi had primitive skeletal features, but the face, skull, and teeth show enough modern
features to justify its placement in the genus Homo...'
By Michael Greshko
Published May 9, 2017
'...A year and a half after adding a puzzling new member to the human family tree, a team
of researchers working in South Africa have offered an additional twist: the species is far
younger than its bizarrely primitive body would suggest, and may have shared the landscape
with early Homo sapiens.
First discovered in 2013 by two cavers exploring the Rising Star cave system near
Johannesburg, a stunning trove of hominin remains—the single richest fossil site of its
kind ever found in Africa—revealed a tiny-brained species with shoulders and a torso
like an ape’s, but with some unshakably humanlike features as well.
The mosaic’s name: Homo naledi, after the Sesotho word for “star.”
Now, the species’s star shines that much brighter.
In papers published Tuesday in eLife, the team—led by University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
paleoanthropologist Lee Berger—provides an age range for the remains first reported in 2015:
between 236,000 and 335,000 years old.
The team also describes a second chamber within Rising Star that contains yet-undated
H. naledi remains.
If these dates hold, it could mean that while our own species was evolving from other,
large-brained ancestors, a little-brained shadow lineage was lingering on from a much earlier
period, perhaps two million years ago or more.
The proposed age range for the fossils also overlaps with the early Middle Stone Age, fueling
a provocative, though unproven, possibility: that the stone-tool record in South Africa from
that time wasn’t just the handiwork of anatomically modern humans.
“How do you know that these sites that are called [examples of] the rise of modern human
behavior aren’t being made by Homo naledi?” says Berger, who is also a National
Geographic explorer-in-residence. “You can imagine how disruptive that could be.”..'
SOURCE:
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