Nevertheless, Stringer said that the discovery and dating of H. naledi «remind us that
about 95 percent of the
area of Africa is still essentially
unexplored for its fossil human record, and its history even within the last 500,000 years may well be as complex as that of Eurasia with its 5 known kinds of humans — Homo erectus, heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and floresiensis.»