Yet another mystery concerns how so many Homo
naledi individuals, including babies as well as adults, wound up in the chamber.
«It's fair to say that
naledi individuals recognised their own mortality and the other self that comes with death,» says Berger.
Not exact matches
Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000 - year - old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, a member of the H.
naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud
individuals as H. sapiens.
Editor's note: This story has been updated on August 30, 2017, to correct the minimum number of
individuals represented by the sample of Homo
naledi teeth.
Homo
naledi fossils excavated there come from at least three
individuals, including an adult male that the investigators named Neo.