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Category: Palaeoscience

Jury still out on Homo naledi, as majority of fossils remain in chamber

Posted on 13th September 201513th September 2015 by Sarah

In the dark and humid Dinaledi Chamber at the Cradle of Humankind, dozens – possibly hundreds – of fossils are still undisturbed. This week, National Geographic explorer-in-residence and Wits University professor Lee Berger announced the discovery of 15 individuals, which his team of international scientists claim is a new species, Homo naledi, that were deposited…

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The next best thing to a time machine

Posted on 11th September 2015 by Sarah

A “man” stands naked in the centre of the studio. In the dim light cast from a lamp on a nearby table, you can see the threads of muscles running down his arms and cording up his legs. But something is wrong: his chest does not expand with air, he does not shift his balance,…

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From the Cradle to the grave? #NalediFossils

Posted on 10th September 201510th September 2015 by Sarah

They moved the bodies in one at a time, from the old with their worn teeth to newborn babies. If they had been modern humans, the Dinaledi Chamber would have been called a burial site. But the creatures are not human. Homo naledi (“naledi” means star in the local Sotho language) is a new species…

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