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The ‘cave of bones’ may hold the mysteries of human origins

Fossils from the Rising Star cave system surround the skeleton of Homo naledi. Considering the primitive core but human-like extremities, “it’s like evolution is crafting us from the outside in,” says paleoanthropologist John Hawks.

2024-04-15    

It was November 2018, and we were sitting at our team’s “command center” in South Africa’s Rising Star cave system, which comprises nearly two and a half miles of interlaced passages, descending in some places more than 130 feet underground. Occasionally, you might find a chamber in which you can sit up or even stand. But most of the open spaces are relatively small. Marina and Becca, our two most experienced excavators, were at work in one such space, Dinaledi.

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