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Homo Naledi

Researchers suspect that 3 million years ago the Homo Naledi was also evolving in parallel with the Australopithecus afarensis.

Source: Dirks, P. H. et al. The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife 6, e24231.

Homo Naledi
The Homo naledi facial reconstruction, performed with the coherent anatomical deformation technique
Image by Cicero Moraes (Arc-Team) et al under CC BY 4.0 license

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