Sentences with phrase «naledi made»
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The new fossils of Homo naledi reinforce a picture of a small - brained, small - bodied creature, which makes the dates reported in a paper in eLife all the more startling: 236,000 to 335,000 years ago.
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«The tool - using features of the H. naledi hand, in combination with its small brain size, has interesting implications for what cognitive requirements might be needed to make and use tools, and, depending on the age of these fossils, who might have made the stone tools that we find in South Africa,» Tracy Kivell at the University of Kent in England, lead author of one of the two H. naledi papers, said in a statement.
More than 1,550 bones and bone fragments of H. naledi have been recovered from a cave in South Africa, the single - largest fossil hominin find made yet in Africa.
Scientists have yet to pin down a date for when H. naledi lived because the nature of the cave in which it was found makes it difficult to determine the age of its fossils.
ATLANTA — Homo naledi, a rock star among fossil species in the human genus, has made an encore.