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New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa

John Hawks, Marina Elliott, Peter Schmid et al., 2017. eLife 6: e24232.

Reports a second H. naledi locality, the Lesedi Chamber, with at least three individuals including the partial skeleton LES1 ("Neo"), in a separate chamber of the same system.

MYS0D38X1T654CF · mystery · click to copyMHomo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsArticledoi: 10.7554/eLife.24232Checked against the original0

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A second deep-cave accumulation, which any explanation has to cover.

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Hawks, J., Elliott, M., Schmid, P., Churchill, S. E., de Ruiter, D. J., Roberts, E. M., Hilbert-Wolf, H., & Garvin, H. M. (2017). New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa. eLife 6: e24232. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24232
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