Meet Our New Cousin !

For those wondering what the heck....? since there is no blurb just a link.

It is about the fossils found in South Africa-- Homo Naledi

(video in link- it is captioned)

Epic Pre-Human Discovery: Meet the Distant Cousins We Never Knew We Had

Thu, Sep 10

It was the largest single discovery of its kind -- 1500 fossils from an entirely new species. Meet one American woman who was instrumental in the find.
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Here is another story-

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/s...s-new-species-human-ancestor-homo-naledi.html
 
I think in the article I linked to (or another article I read) they said that the brain of the Homo Naledi was the size of an orange. Compare that to the size of the modern human brain- approximately a cantaloupe.
 
DeafDucky said:
I think in the article I linked to (or another article I read) they said that the brain of the Homo Naledi was the size of an orange. Compare that to the size of the modern human brain- approximately a cantaloupe.
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Maybe we will have a size of basketball million of years from now!
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I doubt it , I just heard the Sat tests result this year was the lowest ever , if we keep doing this way our brain will be a size of a grape ! :giggle:
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Sat has no bearing whatsoever on our species brain size..
 
Sorry, that's no cousin of mine, new or otherwise. :lol:
 
Reba said:
Sorry, that's no cousin of mine, new or otherwise. :lol:
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:wave: HI you're back ! Well he/or she is very distance cousin of mankind , but I think I saw one of it cousin at Market Basket today , there was a guy picking his nose in the store ! That was very primate to me. :giggle:
 
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