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New Human Ancestor Discovered: Homo naledi

submitted by newtboy

8 years 8 months ago

Within a deep and narrow cave in South Africa, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team found fossil remains belonging to the newest member of our human family. The Homo naledi discovery adds another exciting chapter to the human evolution story by introducing an ancestor that was primitive but shared physical characteristics with modern humans.

Because the cave system where the bones were located was extremely difficult to access, it could be speculated that these hominins practiced a behavior previously believed to be modern: that of deliberately disposing of their dead underground.

Click here to read more about the Homo naledi discovery: http://natgeo.org/naledi

A NOVA/National Geographic special, “Dawn of Humanity,” premieres Sept. 16, 2015, at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on PBS in the U.S: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolutio...

Learn more about National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/exp...

The finds are described in two papers published in the journal eLife: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09560

VIDEOGRAPHERS: Bryan Root and Hans Weise
SENIOR PRODUCER: Jeff Hertrick
EDITOR: Jennifer Murphy
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE: National Geographic/NOVA
ART: Stefan Fichtel

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Thousands of Bones Found for Newly Discovered Human Ancestor has been added as a related post - related requested by newtboy on that post.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, September 10th, 2015 5:23pm PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

It would be fascinating stuff, but it can't be true right? Lord Jesus Christ is responsible for in 7 days creating all of the hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe and all life on earth and on other planets we'll never know about, so these things couldn't have been alive a million years ago. Pure propaganda by all those atheist liars, a.k.a., scientists.

They supposedly had brains the size of an Orange.

I know guys like that.

jokingly says...

I resemble that remark...
...but whey you're only 8 inches long, a brain the size of an orange is pretty good!

...also remember, it's not how big it is, it's how wrinkly it is that counts! (that's what she said)

They supposedly had brains the size of an Orange.

I know guys like that.

That doesn't look ANYTHING like Brendan Fraser.

jokingly says...

I bet they'd understand climate change.

They supposedly had brains the size of an Orange.

I know guys like that.

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