{"id":9312,"date":"2015-09-11T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2015-09-11T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:02:42","slug":"homo-naledi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/homo-naledi","title":{"rendered":"A New Species Of Early Humans Was Discovered In South Africa\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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Archaeologists found fossil fragments of a relative of the human species, including bones and teeth that were buried in ancient clay. After two years of analysis by over 50 different experts, it was discovered that the remains belong to a new species of human kin. Scientists have dubbed the new species <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homo naledi.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><strong>They hit the jackpot of fossils<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Initially thought to be one skeleton, it was soon found that the fossils were of at least fifteen different individuals, comprised of men, women, children and infants. American paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, a researcher in human evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, says that \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With every bone in the body represented multiple times, it is already practically the best-known fossil member of our lineage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9316\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/06_ngm_1015_MM8345_mystery_man_robert_clark1441825690.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_1484w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2015\/09\/09\/Health-Environment-Science\/Images\/06_ngm_1015_MM8345_mystery_man_robert_clark1441825690.jpg?uuid=IC-kelcmEeWfVB6iP24C8w\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">{adinserter CNP5}<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>They found something particularly interesting<\/strong> \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The specific dates of the fossils are not yet known, but the scientists believe they are one of the most primitive members of the human species discovered so far. And this is surprising given that several bodies were deliberately buried in the same area &#8211; this suggests ritualists burying.<em> \u201cIt\u2019s enormously surprising to see a very primitive member of the genus, not very humanlike overall, to do something unique to humans,\u201d<\/em> Berger said. <em>\u201cTo see it in a small-brained hominid is completely surprising. None of us expected it.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9314\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/maxresdefault-13.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/maxresdefault-13.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/maxresdefault-13-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/maxresdefault-13-85x48.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/oxgnlSbYLSc\/maxresdefault.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>An extremely unique being<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Homo <\/em>naledi is different than other early humans in many ways. It is an odd mixture of both primitive and modern traits. It has a small brain, primitive shoulders and torso, and long and curved fingers. These characteristics suggest that they were very early on human evolution, since these types of fingers were designed to climb and swing from trees. Yet the bones in the wrists suggest that they used tools and the bones of its legs and feet show that it was able to walk upright like a modern human. \u201cO<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ne of the most exciting things for us is we discovered something new in biology. We had never seen a creature like this before<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the lead scientist in the analysis, which included experts in primitive feet, teeth, hands and skulls. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homo naledi is unlike anything in our genus. . . . When you look at the anatomical elements across the body, it\u2019s an enormous assemblage of fossils. The task was to interpret these fossils and put them in the context of evolution and where they fit on the human tree<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9315\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CJ75h9Y.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CJ75h9Y.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CJ75h9Y-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CJ75h9Y-85x56.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/CJ75h9Y.jpg\" 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