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Depite the oung date for the naledi foil, their anatom indicate that in evolutionar term the
could lie cloe to the origin of our genu Homo, uggeting that thi i a relic pecie, retaining man
primitive trait from a much earlier time. ecaue naledi i currentl onl known from two ite within
a ingle cave tem, it’ unclear whether it wa retricted to outhern Africa or wa more widepread
(and perhap alread repreented, ut unrecognied, amongt other foil remain). Additionall,
although the naledi foil are not o far aociated with tone tool, it eem highl likel that it
handiwork i preent ut unrecognied in the archaeological record of outhern Africa. ere are
oviou parallel with the late urvival of the o-called ‘hoit’ (H. oreieni) in Indoneia, ut in that
cae iolation on the remote iland of Flore proal account for it longevit. How did a comparal
trange and mall-rained pecie linger on in outhern Africa, eemingl alongide more ‘advanced’
human?
Another puzzle i that if naledi had a lifetle and diet like that of other approximatel contemporar
human population in Africa (a might e indicated it teeth and lower od keleton), how did it
manage to uccefull co-exit with thoe other human pecie (if the were alo preent in outhern
Africa)? Perhap it wa relativel iolated for much of it evolutionar hitor, or could it have avoided
competition continuing in a di erent niche for feeding and living, allowing it to urvive longer –
mae pending more time feeding in and around tree (a it upper od keleton and curved nger
might ugget)?
e dicover and dating of naledi alo quetion the uual aumption that (apart from in Flore)
election alwa drove the evolution of a larger rain in human during the lat million ear. rain are
energeticall ver demanding, et we, Neanderthal and earl Chinee human all evolved much larger
rain – that of naledi wa onl aout half the ize, uggeting that thi wan’t alwa eential.
However we interpret the long-term urvival of Homo naledi, it dicover and dating alo remind u
that mot of Africa i till unexplored for it foil human record, and it hitor even within the lat
, ear could e a complex a the record outide of Africa, where there were at leat kind of
human – Homo erectu, heidelergeni, neanderthaleni, Deniovan and oreieni. At around
, ear ago, there were proal at leat kind of human acro the African continent: Homo
heidelergeni/rhodeieni, earl Homo apien, and Homo naledi. Who know what ele might have
een out there?
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How at leat partial or complete human odie arrived in two eparate location deep within the cave
tem, well eond an natural light, alo remain a ource of much deate. Virtuall no other foil
material wa excavated alongide the naledi one and teeth, and therefore the author of the naledi
tudie favour the idea of intentional and repeated dipoal of dead odie other memer of the
pecie, deep within thi pitch-lack and di cult cave. Although no other atifactor explanation for
the depoition of the naledi remain ha et een propoed, man other expert conider uch complex
ehaviour unlikel for a creature with a rain ize cloe to that of a gorilla, particularl when a
requirement for the controlled ue of re (for lighting) alo eem to e necear. It i going to take
further nd in the Riing tar cave tem and elewhere efore man of the quetion raied the
dicover of Homo naledi can e anwered atifactoril.
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Retud of Ancient Teeth how Modern Human Were in umatran Rainforet More than 60,000
Year Ago
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