What's Up With That New Human Species Discovery?

Reconstruction of Homo naledi

A pile of bones were just found within a South African deep cave. And it seems to be very primitive-it had a tiny brain, for instance, and apelike shoulders for climbing. Its been named as Homo Naledi. The catch here is that it looks remarkably like modern humans. At the point when did it live? Where does it fit in the human family tree? Furthermore, how did its bones get into the most concealed chamber of the cave—could such a primitive animal have been discarding its dead deliberately?

This disclosure of 15 fractional skeletons is the biggest single disclosure of its type in Africa. The researchers assert that the revelation will change thoughts regarding our human predecessors.

The analysts who made the find have not been able to figure out to what extent back these animals lived - yet the researcher who drove the group, Prof Lee Berger, told BBC News that he believed they could be among the first of our kind (class Homo) and could have lived in Africa up to three million years prior.


Professor Berger says that naledi could be considered as the bridge that gaps primitive bipedal primates and humans.

"What we are seeing is more and more species of creatures that suggests that nature was experimenting with how to evolve humans, thus giving rise to several different types of human-like creatures originating in parallel in different parts of Africa. Only one line eventually survived to give rise to us," he told BBC News.

Different scientists working in the field, for example, Prof Stringer, trust that naledi ought to be depicted as a primitive human. In any case, he concurs that present speculations should be re-assessed and that we have just barely touched the most superficial layer of the rich and complex story of human development.