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Based on the true discovery
On Friday September 13, 2013 two recreational cavers, Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker accidentally discovered a bed of mysterious fossil bones thirty meters underground in an unchartered cave just outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
Professor Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer led the excavation of over 1550 fossil bones belonging to a unique hominin species later dubbed Homo naledi.
Six female archaeologists arrived at the Rising Star cave some two months later. Braving the arduous and treacherous unexplored cave system, they set about unearthing the bones millimeter by millimeter, even using toothpicks and porcupine quills as part of their equipment.
On September 10, 2015, the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa formally unveiled, for the first time ever, a unique new human relative to our family tree. The significance of Homo naledi’s discovery turned science on its head when it provided DNA evidence of its close relation to humans as we are today, claiming its existence as young as between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.
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