New human relative found! Homo Naledi!

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A closer step to prove God's existence!

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Lol what?

 

[Transcendence]

A closer step to prove God's existence!

Please enlighten us all how that makes any shrivel of sense.

 

[Agent Phrank]

To be honest I thought Government officials would try to hide it.

They would have had to start early since the guy and his team had been posting about their plans on facebook.

So Berger put the word out on Facebook: Skinny individuals wanted, with scientific credentials and caving experience; must be “willing to work in cramped quarters.” Within a week and a half he’d heard from nearly 60 applicants.

A win for social media.

It would be so tedious but not impossible- why suppress such valuable information though? Might as well ban paleontology or anything that mentions ancestral human lineage.

A closer step to prove God's existence!

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Makes sense. But when you say compared to ancient humans you mean homo sapiens right? I'm still a little confused with this stuff.

Probably since the article implies burial practice is something only noted in our species (Homo sapiens).
We'll have to wait until October, apparently, for the full report.

I didn't think burial defined humans.... Oh well
I think being human is a combination of many things, not just one characteristic, that's silly in my opinion

If confirmed, it's indicative of manual dexterity and the use of conceptual planning.

Burials- storing humans either for ritualistic purposes or safety precautions.

And they managed to find many near-complete bone structures:

"We found everything from infants to babies to toddlers to teens, young adults, old individuals. It is like nothing that we could have ever imagined," says Berger. "Homo naledi is already practically the best-known fossil member of our lineage."

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In the early hominin fossil record, the number of mostly complete skeletons, including his two from Malapa, could be counted on one hand. And now this

that match the basic anatomical description of a homonid:

they are characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion, manual dexterity and increased tool use, and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies.[3][4]

What other animal could it be?

- DNA and carbon dating is yet to be done so there's still speculation as to where Naledi fits on the phylogenic tree.

But even the lead researcher is questioning his humanity:

"It absolutely questions what makes us human. And I don't think we know anymore what does."

 

[GinkgoLeaf Girl]

Very interesting; I look forward to reading more about it!