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Homo Naledi: Our Newest Oldest Relative?

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    How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave?  Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.

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