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Discovering the remains of humanity’s most recently discovered ancestor was no easy task, but well worth the squeeze into a narrow South African cave.

Not only does Homo naledi share certain physical characteristics with modern humans, it also appears they buried their dead, which took scientists by surprise.

“There are over 1,500 hominin fossils and not a single other fossil from a large African mammal. That was the first indication that this locality was unusual and the absence of other fossils is an important piece of evidence that this accumulation of bodies was deliberate,” Jeremy DeSilva, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College…

Full story at Huffington Post.

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