A Cave Full of Homo naledi Fossils May Point to an All-Female Burial Site, a First for a Non-Modern Human Species
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A Cave Full of Homo naledi Fossils May Point to an All-Female Burial Site, a First for a Non-Modern Human Species
Learn how proteins in Homo naledi teeth could point to an all-female burial site and raise new questions about how ancient human relatives treated their dead.
Homo naledi, this mysterious parent of modern man discovered in the caves of South Africa, reserves a new surprise: the proteomics analysis of 20 teeth reveals that all known skeletons of the species would be females. An absolute first in the history of paleoanthropology — and an additional clue that these caves could be a [...]
A new study on Homo naledi fossils, discovered in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa and long a subject of debate in human evolution research, has surprised the scientific community. The study revealed that all the teeth of the 20 individuals examined belonged to females.
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