Posted on 09/10/2015 6:00:52 AM PDT by blam
September 10, 2015
JOHANNESBURG—The discovery of a new species of human relative was announced today (Sept. 10) by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), the National Geographic Society and the South African Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation (DST/NRF). Besides shedding light on the origins and diversity of our genus, the new species, Homo naledi, appears to have intentionally deposited bodies of its dead in a remote cave chamber, a behaviour previously thought limited to humans.
The finds are described in two papers published in the scientific journal eLife and reported in the cover story of the October issue of National Geographic magazine (http://natgeo.org/naledi) and a NOVA/National Geographic Special (#NalediFossils). An international team of scientists took part in the research.
Consisting of more than 1,550 numbered fossil elements, the discovery is the single largest fossil hominin find yet made on the continent of Africa. The initial discovery was made in 2013 in a cave known as Rising Star in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, by Wits University scientists and volunteer cavers. The fossils, which have yet to be dated, lay in a chamber about 90 meters (some 100 yards) from the cave entrance, accessible only through a chute so narrow that a special team of very slender individuals was needed to retrieve them.
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GGG Ping.
Homo Nailed It?
When they find a totally unknown small “species” I think of Nebraska man.
Amazing!
Poor guy seems to have gotten a nasty bump on his head. I doubt they have any evidence for the shape of the nose--they could have had noses more like those of Homo sapiens rather than like those of apes.
This article has a better headline (relative not ancestor). I’d say this species IS classified as human because of it’s inclusion in genus Homo so burying their dead suggests it’s correctly classified.
I think of Obama
They found a new humanoid species in San Francisco. I believe they call it homo democratis.
New York/Washington too.
Some define human as anything that walks on two legs.
Looks rather contemporary to me.
Looks like another load of bovine excrement. Basically a man with a ape face. No, this is juast another make believe creature from the pretend-science of Darwinian evolution.
As with “climate change”, you have to look at the underlying motivations.
For climate change, it’s a handy vehicle to advance marxism.
For this topic, however, it’s more spiritual -
the point is to justify the denial of God and humans’ special place in creation.
Looks like Michelle to me.
Man is made in the image of God. In other words, man has free will with a conscious mind that affects and creates his world. What I find interesting is while physics is exploring nonphysical realms of energy and consciousness; the groundwork having been laid by quantum mechanics, biology is still seemingly stuck in a strictly physical Newtonian physics universe. They still believe that self awareness is a phenomenon of the physical brain, which is like saying the music you hear on the radio is a phenomenon of the radio’s circuitry.
. . .The fossils, which have yet to be dated, lay in a chamber about 90 meters (some 100 yards) from the cave entrance, accessible only through a chute so narrow that a special team of very slender individuals was needed to retrieve them. . .
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It sounds to me like a bunch of apes all went into that cave for some reason; food, shelter from a storm, being chased by a predator, then couldn't get back out.
Actually nobody does that.
“.......intentionally deposited bodies of its dead in a remote cave chamber, a behaviour previously thought limited to humans.”
Ever seen an ant farm?
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