Spoke paleontologist who discovered the Homo Naledi: “It’s an incredible find” – Infobae.com

   
   

 
     

       
       
 
       
       
 
       
 
         
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
        
 
       

The news of the discovery of the skeletal remains of 15 individuals belonging to an unknown type of man when he toured the world in the last few hours.

The group of more than 1,500 fossil was found in a cave near Johannesburg in November 2013, after almost two years of intensive analysis the researchers decided to announce the discovery of a new species of early human ancestor, a finding described as “extraordinary”.

In conversation with InfobaeTV , Berger said it was “to recover these incredible fossils of a dangerous situation in the depths of the earth expedition.”

“It’s a very primitive ancestor, represented by the group of largest fossil ever found in the history of the search for human origins in Africa”, said the browser.

Berger explained that the skull Homo Naledi “fits in the palm of a hand” and that the brain is “the size of an orange”.

“It’s much smaller than the other members of the genus Homo that were found in the past, but the overall appearance of the fossil is definitely similar to the genus Homo. The body is very strange, with a very similar to a simian chest, with arms, legs and human feet. All this combined allows us to take a look at the origins of the genus Homo. “

The paleoanthropologist, whose team managed to rescue 1,500 fossil pieces in a little more than three weeks, said two of his amateur explorers managed to pass a crack 18 centimeters wide and 12 meters down until you reach a cave where they found the remains.

     

     

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