![]() In 2021, the discovery of an infant skull in a narrow fissure that is almost impossible to access indicated that this hominin deliberately interred its dead. Dating of its fossil remains in 2017 showed that it lived relatively recently, from 335,000 to at least 241,000 years ago, so might have met Homo sapiens, which evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago. naledi fits in the hominin family tree, but its morphology suggests that its common ancestor with Neanderthals and modern humans dates back a million years or more. We now know that this hominin was around 144 centimetres tall and had a mix of primitive and modern features, with a brain a third of the size of ours. In 2015, it was declared that these belonged to a new species. ![]() ![]() naledi was discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa when two cavers squeezed through an incredibly tight passage into a hitherto-unexplored chamber littered with fossil bones. ![]()
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