Homo Naledi Characteristics

Homo naledi is a new species discovered to be part of the human ancestral linage. The discovery was, made in South Africa at a place called the star cave. This writing will discuss the interesting traits of the Homo naledi and proceed to state why this discovery is as interesting to the anthropologist community. Homo Naledi comes forth as the largest fossil find ever made in the African continent with 1550 fossil elements. What is so interesting to the anthropologist community is, Homo naledi is a new species belonging to an extinct hominin. Homo naledi main traits are its small body mass comparable to small-bodied humans. Additionally the homo naledi edocranial volume is as small as that of the australopiths (Stephanie 2015). Like

Some paleoanthropologists still believe that there is a possibility that the Homo naledi does not yet warrant the Homo placement it has received. John (2015) notes that there some Anthropologist still question whether the Homo naledi is just another variant form of already well known species like homo erectus. Surprising enough is how small the Homo naledi brain was, compared with other hominins including the modern man. This is in addition to the fact that the cranium is as rounded as that of other Hominin species. However even more amazing is the fact that the time question is not yet solved. The main reason to this is because the fossils were not encased neither were they close to any foreign datable material. Making this even more difficult no singular organisms were, found close to the fossils that could be, used for dating. Inability to date the fossils from surrounding objects leaves only two options both of which raise the issue of accuracy. The radiocarbon dating method which could be done on the fossils is only accurate in fossils which are 50,000 years or younger. Consequently, this dating method also raises the issue of age limit as it posses the risk of providing an upper age

Human evolution is pattern like a bush, which breaks into many lineages. Majority of this lineages are have ceased to exist However, it might occur to some that age is not as important as most of the analysis relies on relationships created strictly through grouping organisms evolutionarily. According to these statement then it could be concluded that Homo neledi is an earlier species, which survived for a long time there by resulting in its closeness to the present genus. All the same, it is, argued that fossil age helps in creating a period that increases the accuracy of the