New hominin species discovered in South Africa

[PyramidHead]

Here's the research if anyone is interested: http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e09561

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/africa/homo-naledi-human-relative-species/

Two years after they were tipped off by cavers plumbing the depths of the limestone tunnels in the Rising Star Cave outside Johannesburg, Berger and his team have discovered what they say is a new addition to our family tree.

The team is calling this new species of human relative "Homo naledi," and they say it appears to have buried its dead -- a behavior scientists previously thought was limited to humans.

Berger's team came up with the startling theory just days after reaching the place where the fossils -- consisting of infants, children, adults and elderly individuals -- were found, in a previously isolated chamber within the cave.

The team believes that the chamber, located 30 meters underground in the Cradle of Humanity world heritage site, was a burial ground -- and that Homo naledi could have used fire to light the way.

 

[ApostateAbe]

That's nothing like an intermediate species. No missing link here. It is a 5,000-year-old atheist with Asperger's syndrome.

 

[fromderinside]

That's nothing like an intermediate species. No missing link here. It is a 5,000-year-old atheist with Asperger's syndrome.

Until we have evidence about how old this species is the theories about burial behavior need be set aside.

 

[PyramidHead]

Until we have evidence about how old this species is the theories about burial behavior need be set aside.

Not necessarily. Even if it's a young species, the fact that it's not homo sapiens is enough to shatter our previously held notion that only humans bury their dead.

 

[fromderinside]

Until we have evidence about how old this species is the theories about burial behavior need be set aside.

Not necessarily. Even if it's a young species, the fact that it's not homo sapiens is enough to shatter our previously held notion that only humans bury their dead.

Permitting age dating allows scientists to put underground activity into a proper context. It may not be burying the dead.

 

[Kharakov]

All you evolutionists and your constant add hominin fallacies....

 

[Potoooooooo]

http://www.enca.com/south-africa/homo-naledi-promotes-africans-subhuman-mothole-motshekga

Actually Homo Naledi is a Western plot to promote the idea that black people are subhumans.

From no less an authority than the ANC's chief whip in Parliament.

The West has also suppressed African literature which disproves evolution and shows that humankind's origins are at the source of the Nile river and that humanity existed before the universe was formed.

 

[skepticalbip]

.................. humanity existed before the universe was formed.

That is obvious but I have been trying to get funding to research where the hell they hung out while waiting for the universe to form so they would have a place to inhabit.

Maybe Dr Mathole Motshekga will fund my research.