This week we're talking about a discovery that might turn what we think we know about the evolution of our species on its head!

Sources:

Netflix: Unknown Cave of Bones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Star_Cave

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/data/naledi/

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-naledi-your-most-recently-discovered-human-relative.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68942123

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1720842115

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ancient-human-species/

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/june/claims-homo-naledi-buried-their-dead-alter-our-understanding-human-evolution.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/22/small-brained-early-humans-homo-naledi-cleverer-storm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Humankind

https://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics/brains

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earliest-human-burial-homo-naledi-berger

https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/rising_star_cave/rising_star_cave/index.php

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-latest-on-homo-naledi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Cradle-of-Humankind/601978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Ples 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Berger_(paleoanthropologist) 

https://news.wisc.edu/naledi/#:~:text=Dating%20the%20fossils%20remains%20a,of%20time%20and%20depositing%20bodies.%E2%80%9D&text=According%20to%20Hawks%2C%20years%20of,Liberal%20Arts%20Seed%20Grant%20Program.