Spectacular cave find sheds light on human origins
September 10, 2015 9:42 AM   Subscribe

In a series of findings un-veiled on Thursday, researchers involved in exploring the chamber said it contains the remains of a previously unknown species of hominin, the evolutionary group that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens. Dubbed Homo naledi, after the Sesotho word for “star,” the species appears to be an early and possibly founding member of the human line.
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