In 2015,.........., a new species of the genus Homo was discovered in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Homo naledi
Homo naledi is a species of archaic human announced in September 2015 by a team led by palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, from over 1,500 fossil pieces found in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave.
The name naledi means star in the Sesotho language, after the cave where the bones were found.
Homo erectus, Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis were all identified decades earlier, mainly from finds in East Africa and Asia, so none was a 2015 discovery.
Hence, Homo naledi.
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