[Mark17]

Based on the cranial remains, the researchers concluded it had a small brain only about the size of an orange or your fist.

Hmmm. Sounds like NY Times reporters. 😂👍

[robel]

It’s an ape, not an “evolutionary” link. Of course it’s still possible they are relared to democrats.

[ETL]

Brain power I always thought was more dependent on the amount of surface area of a given brain. More convolutions = more surface area.

[ETL]

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Size matters?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Ironic that this post immediately follows an FR post from a few minutes earlier entitled, "Seattle City Council votes 9-0 for scaled-down head tax on large employers"

So, Seattle is taxing "scaled-down head"s.

Apparently they have no choice but to tax those types of people, since they've long ago driven away all the conservatives.

[jmaroneps37]

They found that “Must vote Democrat” was written on the walls of the government housing caves these small brain people lived in.

[Bonemaker]

“Based on the cranial remains, the researchers concluded it had a small brain only about the size of an orange or your fist.”

But they are not extinct...they are called Homo Democrats.

[COBOL2Java]

He kind of looks like my first landlord

[blam]

This is the site where they had to recruit small bodied archaeologists because the cave and cave opening were so small that average sized people couldn't go in there.

Much more has been found:

New Haul Of Homo Naledi Bones Sheds Surprising Light On Human Evolution

When fossil hunters unveiled the remains of a mysterious and archaic new species of human found deep inside a cave in South Africa two years ago, the scientific community was stunned. Since then, bodies of the long-lost family members have piled up.

In work published on Tuesday in the journal eLife, the team reveals how high that pile has become. They now have the remnants of at least 18 Homo naledi, as the species is named. The most recent haul of bones, found in a cave chamber 100 metres from the first, includes a nearly complete adult skull.

Tests on the material found the bones to be between 335,000 and 236,000 years old, making them far younger than many scientists had expected. “It means that this species of primitive hominid was actually around at the same time as Homo sapiens,” said Lee Berger, the lead scientist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

The bones, remarkably, show few signs of disease or stress from poor development, suggesting that Homo naledi may have been the dominant species in the area at the time. “They are the healthiest dead things you’ll ever see,” said Berger.

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