Ancient human remains may be a new species

摘要

A TREASURE trove of ancient human remains discovered in a cave in South Africa could give us a new picture of human evolution - and evidence of a previously undiscovered species.Lee Berger at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his colleagues call the cave simply UW105 because it is the 105th site they have identified. It is a short walk from the Rising Star cave, where his team discovered a new species called Homo naledi in 2013. The following year, the group found a fragment of a lower jaw with a single tooth in UW 105. They belonged to a hominin, but at the time the Rising Star excavation was a priority.