In the Republic of South Africa in a remote cave anthropologists have found about a thousand fossilized bones that belong to at least 15 species of human ancestors. Since 2013, the scientists removed the bone fragments, and last year worked on their anatomical analysis. He showed that the researchers collected the skeleton of a new species of man — Homo naledi, which is a mixture of progressive and ancient features of a person.

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In the Republic of South Africa in a remote cave anthropologists have found about a thousand fossilized bones that belong to at least 15 species of human ancestors. Since 2013, the scientists removed the bone fragments, and last year worked on their anatomical analysis. He showed that the researchers collected the skeleton of a new species of man — Homo naledi, which is a mixture of progressive and ancient features of a person.

They are characteristic for species separated by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. For example, their feet in their structure resemble the feet of modern man. But brain volume in two times less and corresponds to that of Australopithecus.

the scientists now is to determine the age of remains. If it is over 3 million years, the mélange can be attributed to different paths of evolution. If they are younger, then a new kind of man can be called a "living fossil", who has preserved the features of primitive people stuck on the evolutionary scale.