Madrid. An international team of scientists described for the first time Homo Naledi, a new species of hominid that has features of Australopithecus and that could be the oldest specimen of Homo.
Homo Naledi was found in 2013 Dinaledi chamber in the cave Rising Star of South Africa and his remains were among more than 550 thousand fossils.
The full description was published yesterday in the journal eLIFE. But how was this guy? “Homo Naledi has a funnel-shaped trunk, not barrel shaped like men today, but like a pyramid, characteristic feature of the Australopithecus or the great apes such as chimpanzees,” explained researcher at the National Museum . of Natural Sciences and co-author Markus Bastir
In addition “has a small skull, the shape of the first representatives of the genus Homo: habilis or erectus, and a very small cranial capacity, approximately a third of what occupies our current brain. “
However, their limbs are” virtually identical to those of modern humans. ” His hands have the ability to handle objects that men have now, but his fingers are curved and phalanges, suggesting that would be adapted to live in an arboreal habitat. Homo feet, 1.50 meters and 50 kilos, are also like ours but with slightly curved fingers. EFE
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