Posted on 09/10/2015 5:12:13 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Rising Star Cave, South Africa (CNN)When an amateur caver and university geologist arrived at Lee Berger's house one night in late 2013 with a fragment of a fossil jawbone in hand, they broke out the beers and called National Geographic.
Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, had unearthed some major finds before. But he knew he had something big on his hands.
What he didn't know at the time is that it would shake up our understanding of the progress of human evolution and even pose new questions about our identity.
Two years after they were tipped off by cavers plumbing the depths of the limestone tunnels in the Rising Star Cave outside Johannesburg, Berger and his team have discovered what they say is a new addition to our family tree.
The team is calling this new species of human relative "Homo naledi," and they say it appears to have buried its dead -- a behavior scientists previously thought was limited to humans.
Berger's team came up with the startling theory just days after reaching the place where the fossils -- consisting of infants, children, adults and elderly individuals -- were found, in a previously isolated chamber within the cave.
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This explains a lot!
How long before the “homo” jokes start?
Wait till they hear about Homo Caitlyni
Homo Nailed It?
How long before the homo jokes start?
Stuff like, “wow, he was in the closet for a loooong time.”
Looks like Michelle. FLOTUS
This will be used as “dead-solid PROOF” that blacks were in South Africa before Europeans showed up and took it all away from them.
Finally! An explanation for my ex-husband!
*Ba-Dump-Dump* :)
Amusing
Another bone fragment of a jaw that looks like an ape, and they call it a left handed bisexual hominid that ate berries and chutes and made crude tools...
And they can tell all that from a bone FRAGment...
OK, I'll play.
Artists rendition of what Homo naledimay have looked like:
The article says that the women crawled through a 7 inch hole to gain access to the site. Proves once again that women have been lied to about what constitutes 7 inches!
I am sorry!!! I know I will catch a lot grief (well deserved), but I could not resist.
Start the flaming!
Pretty much.
I read that and just shook my head. Obviously a person could not fit through a seven inch opening in the cave.
Oh, great, another homo.
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