The first people buried the dead in caves – like journalists, “The Telegraph”. At least 15 skeletons of the newly discovered species – homo named Naledi – were found in a cave called “Chamber starry”. According to scientists, we have to deal with the earliest known to us, a form of ritual burial.
Homo Naledi had about . 150 cm tall, and their weight fluctuated around 50 kg. Their hips were similar to those that occurred in Australopithecus Lucy, but their arms were designed primarily for climbing. Skull resembled those known to turn in early humans. Brains have a much smaller size of an orange.
Before covering, scientists thought that only Homo sapiens had a large enough of compassion and self-awareness to bury the dead.
– This species, which never podejrzewalibyśmy by making complex behavior. We had them only as “something more than animals,” – says Lee Burger in an interview with the BBC, “researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand.
– Until this discovery, we thought that ritualisation concerning the burial of the dead was unique, proper only for the species homo sapiens. Meanwhile, there was a discovery that sheds new light on the matter – he added.
Valuable discovered and analyzed the remains of a large group of scientists from the United States, Europe, China and South Africa. Genre “Naledi” belongs to the genus of primates ‘homo’. It also belongs to the modern man – Lee Berger explains.
Scientists at the moment do not know exactly when he lived This ancestor of man, perhaps about three million years ago. Evolutionists say that in the past nature “experimented” with praludźmi – emerged and died while different species. Only one – homo sapiens – evolved and survived to this day.
The new species was found in one of caves distance of approx. 50 kilometers from Johannesburg.
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