Deep cave yields a new human

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3038, 2015, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • One thousand four hundred bones, 140 teeth, belonging to at least 15 individual skeletons--and that's just what was recovered in single short field session. The early human fossil record isn't normally this rich. For a century, paleoanthropologists have generally learned to make do with slim pickings--part of a face here, a jawbone fragment there. Now, from the depths of a cave in South Africa, has come a monster cache of hominin bones from a previously unknown early species of humans' own genus, Homo.