Thanks BlueDragon. Now here's something unexpected:
I was just building a thread-link thingy for a related NYT article on the same subject (not that I like the NYT, but I don't like CNN either, if you know what I mean).
Link to NYT article;
excerpt;
The new hominin species was announced on Thursday by an international team of more than 60 scientists led by Lee R. Berger, an American paleoanthropologist who is a professor of human evolution studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The species name, H. naledi, refers to the cave where the bones lay undisturbed for so long; “naledi” means “star” in the local Sesotho language.In two papers published this week in the open-access journal eLife, the researchers said that the more than 1,550 fossil elements documenting the discovery constituted the largest sample for any hominin species in a single African site, and one of the largest anywhere in the world. Further, the scientists said, that sample is probably a small fraction of the fossils yet to be recovered from the chamber. So far the team has recovered parts of at least 15 individuals.
The next paragraph seemed contrary to the headline;
“With almost every bone in the body represented multiple times, Homo naledi is already practically the best-known fossil member of our lineage,” Dr. Berger said.
but I suppose it may depend upon what the definition "new" is, as in how new are the discoveries, along with the opinions concerning those, which should not be confused as being entirely interchangeable.
Uncle's Monkey ping to SunkenCiv.
What I don’t understand is this discovery was made in 2013 but just now being put out there.
Thanks BlueDragon. Now here's something unexpected:
I was just building a thread-link thingy for a related NYT article on the same subject...Here's the shortcut bookmark I use.
