Evidence of Homo naledi’s age suggests we need to rethink our understanding of human history and evolution.
- Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The discovery of Homo naledi has been a social media sensation, recording an extraordinary number of views – more than 170,000 – for a scientific paper.
Despite claims about its age, puzzling combinations of features from Homo naledi gives it an uncanny resemblance to human beings.
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