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The skull of Homo naledi

Journal of Human Evolution, 2017
The species Homo naledi was recently named from specimens recovered from the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. This large skeletal sample lacks associated faunal material and currently does not have a known chronological context.
Laird, Myra F.   +11 more
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The vertebrae and ribs of Homo naledi

Journal of Human Evolution, 2017
Hominin evolution featured shifts from a trunk shape suitable for climbing and housing a large gut to a trunk adapted to bipedalism and higher quality diets. Our knowledge regarding the tempo, mode, and context in which these derived traits evolved has been limited, based largely on a small-bodied Australopithecus partial skeleton (A.L.
Williams, Scott A   +8 more
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Skull diversity in the Homo lineage and the relative position of Homo naledi

Journal of Human Evolution, 2017
The discovery of Homo naledi has expanded the range of phenotypic variation in Homo, leading to new questions surrounding the mosaic nature of morphological evolution. Though currently undated, its unique morphological pattern and possible phylogenetic relationships to other hominin taxa suggest a complex evolutionary scenario.
Lauren Schroeder   +8 more
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Homo naledi did not have flat foot

HOMO, 2019
The collection of 1550 Homo naledi fossil remains includes six tarsal and five metatarsal bones from the right foot, forming a nearly complete humanlike flat foot arch. The missing right medial cuneiform, however, raises our interest to explore the true structure of Homo naledi's foot arch. We hypothesize that Homo naledi does not have flat foot.
Li, Ruining   +6 more
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The deciduous dentition of Homo naledi: A comparative study

Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
In 2013, 2014 new hominin remains were uncovered in the Dinaledi chamber of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. In 2015 Berger and colleagues identified these remains as belonging to a new species Homo naledi (Berger et al., 2015). Subsequent comparative studies of the skull, postcrania and permanent dentition have supported this taxonomic ...
Bailey S. E.   +3 more
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On Homo naledi and its significance in evolutionary anthropology

2020
For the past few years our team has been engaged with the discovery and analysis of an exceptional sample of fossil human relatives from the Rising Star cave system, South Africa. These fossils represent the newly discovered species Homo naledi. The fossils have a combination of humanlike traits in the hands, teeth, legs, and feet, but other features ...
John Hawks, Lee Berger
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Brief communication: Dental microwear and diet of Homo naledi

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2018
AbstractObjectivesA recent study of dental chipping suggested that Homo naledi teeth were exposed to “acute trauma” on a regular basis during life, presumably from the consumption of grit‐laden foods. This follows debate concerning the etiology of dental chips in South African hominin teeth that dates back more than half a century.
Peter S. Ungar, Lee R. Berger
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The endocast morphology of LES1, Homo naledi

American Journal of Biological Anthropology
AbstractObjectivesHomo naledi is near the extreme of small brain size within Homo but is easily recognized as Homo in other aspects of endocast morphology. This study adds new evidence of the endocast morphology of H. naledi by describing the Lesedi Hominin 1 (LES1) endocranium from the Lesedi Chamber and compares it to the previously known H.
Shawn D. Hurst   +6 more
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