Red Badger: "Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa"
Homo? maybe.
Human? certainly not.
At 2.8 million years old these creatures were on the border-line between our classification genus Australopithecus and genus homo which includes us.
So, Homo naledi were certainly hominins, but just as certainly not Humans.
See here for a list of genus Homo species, their ages and numbers of fossils found for each.
Yes, it’s the motivation to find a true “missing link” that encourages such sloppy language. “Ooh, look, a human with all these monkey like traits!”. Hold on there, pump the brakes on that “human” stuff.
I find it amazing that these bones lay undisturbed for nearly 3 million years..................................
Fair enough. You can’t expect today’s journalists to be too technical.
They don’t know much about much.