Unravelling the enigmatic remains of Homo naledi

[@davidwordsworth5584]

I love Lee Berger's approach to sharing the knowledge instead of hoarding it for his own personal gratification and study.

[@Lora_M_NY]

Ruffled a few feathers. That’s for sure! And good for him ruffling them!

[@jonni2317]

always exciting to hear about homo naledi, thank you

[@drbigmdftnu]

Fascinating. These guys are such a puzzle. They may be derived from a separate group of habilis/rudolphensis or even a direct descendant of Australopithicus. Could you imagine a separate line from Australopithecus to Homo, parallel but different from habilis to erectus and so on. Man, I hope they can get DNA!

[@michaelcarley9866]

I picture them being chased in there and smoked out with fire no tools left behind for this type of fire.Happening over and over

[@garymacmillan]

Bothers me somewhat how many botch the origin of this discovery. She does.

[@Lora_M_NY]

Here’s the thing though, if we’re talking jewelry and art for Neanderthals, I hear of it only in the later periods wherein the individuals we call “Neanderthals” may have varying amounts of hybridism with Homo sapiens. That would indeed to me, lead one to think they would have inherited some of the complexities that are required for abstract thought. Even “copying” sapiens would require a complex ability to abstractify the item in order to replicate ~or attempt to replicate the item. Maybe? Lol

[@RulgertGhostalker]

sorry, but i absolutely detest the self centric "homosapianism" that taints scientific objectivity.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

read my comment 3 up, and i will hear your thoughts on that.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

I Need People To Understand This. i was thinking homonaledi was either australopithecines that whent the wrong way, or just another of many failed attempts at bi-pedal evolution resulting from the millions of years of fairly messy littering from the trees ... but after studying what is available on naleti , i am going with the latter. i think australopithecines evolved into the habilienes with a change in diet marking the fairly abrupt physiological changes there ... the east nile territory was obviously more conducive to surviving the reproductively problematic relation, and evolving into a tool maker accommodating the fire working niche... and it should be blindingly obvious, with the data we have now, that something skipped over the first couple million years of human evolution, and raped it's way back into the human species carrying Non-feasible species invasive DNA. the problem is, they are Not stupid; and have leaned to teach us that they can unlearn something they can't, ( missing the first couple million years ); and it proves how stupidly compassionate humans are that we would all starve to death, with flies laying eggs in our orifices, for thinking we could solve hunger sub-sahara with food ; before we collectively realized that. Like STUPIDLY Compassionate.

[@DivyenduKashyap]

What

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@DivyenduKashyap in short, within a couple hundred years time, sub-saharans are nearly done ripping the topsoil off the north american continent and transforming it into ever more starving children and methane ... This Is For Real. they are driving us all into the 3rd world back along with them; because no one will sell food, to anyone, when there is not enough food ... and no one will spend what energy they do have, making products for people either, so industry will also be abandoned...