Many of the world’s number one paleoanthropology are these days in London, attending the Congress of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. And there, the research postulates the existence of Homo Naledi , a previously unknown ancestor of man will be under scrutiny of the experts.
The work presented today by the Professor Lee Berger, an anthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, along with National Geographic and others, described what could be the oldest specimen of the genus Homo, the Home Naledi.
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The questions are multiple triggers the finding. Some of those compiled by the Spanish newspaper El Pais are: Could a kind of brain so small have enough awareness to bury their counterparts in the deep cave where the fossils were found? How did they get there in complete darkness? Why could not be carbon dated fossils, DNA or other techniques, which at least indicate a range of about their age?
Juan Luis Arsuaga, Spanish paleoanthropologist, scientific director of the Museum Human Evolution in Burgos, told El Pais that the finding is “amazing”. However, Arsuaga believes the cave where the fossils were found was another entry in the past, which could be accessed without artificial light. This Naledi rule out that the fire could use to get there, an idea suggested by the authors.
While Kaye Reed of Arizona State University, says in The country that no dates for the fossil is “impossible” to place this new species in our evolutionary tree beyond inclusion in the genus Homo. Reed doubt also the burial grounds, without dates are unconvincing . “Her descriptions are good but I find that its conclusions have zealous ; many researchers want their fossil changed our view of human evolution. Sometimes the fossil and sometimes does not, “says Reed in the Spanish daily.
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