Rising Star cave complex

cave system, South Africa

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In Australopithecus: Transition to Homo
…of the deposits at the Rising Star cave indicate that H. naledi lived as recently as 300,000 years ago. The major implication of the redating is that H. naledi can no longer be considered as an ancestor to Homo sapiens. This is because 300,000-year-old H. sapiens fossils were found at…
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In Homo naledi
…found in excavations of the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa’s Transvaal region—the remains of at least 15 males and females of various ages—that were described in 2015.
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In Lee Berger
…a deep recess in the Rising Star cave system near the Swartkrans World Heritage Site in South Africa. The remains totaled more than 1,500 fossil specimens belonging to a new species that he and his team named H. naledi. As first described in a 2015 paper, H. naledi was shown…
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