The lead scientist tells CBS News that the discoveries his team is making in the Rising Star cave system may force us to rethink "what it means to be human."
The lead scientist tells CBS News that the discoveries his team is making in the Rising Star cave system may force us to rethink "what it means to be human."
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You've heard of Homo naledi, the strange "human ancestor" (really, a cousin) found a while back in South Africa. There were many skeletal remains in a cave, in the kind of shape you'd expect if they had crawled into the cave and died there, not much disturbed. They look enough like other members of our genus, Homo, to be called Homo, but if we assume that increase in brain size is the hallmark of our species, they seem to be an early grade.
Does it seem as if not a day goes by without news concerning yet another ancient human ancestor that may or may not have had sexual relations with humans? Most of these discoveries are tiny bone fragments or environmental DNA (eDNA) – cellular material from skin, feces or other sources – so the discovery of. Read more »