Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa Author Lee R Berger Author John Hawks Author Darryl J de Ruiter Author Steven E Churchill Author Peter Schmid Author Lucas K Delezene Author Tracy L Kivell Author Heather M Garvin Author Scott A Williams Author Jeremy M DeSilva Author Matthew M Skinner Author Charles M Musiba Author Noel Cameron Author Trenton W Holliday Author William Harcourt-Smith Author Rebecca R Ackermann Author Markus Bastir Author Barry Bogin Author Debra Bolter Author Juliet Brophy Author Zachary D Cofran Author Kimberly A Congdon Author Andrew S Deane Author Mana Dembo Author Michelle Drapeau Author Marina C Elliott Author , Elen M Feuerriegel Author Daniel Garcia-Martinez Author David J Green Author Alia Gurtov Author Joel D Irish Author Ashley Kruger Author Myra F Laird Author Damiano Marchi Author Marc R Meyer Author Shahed Nalla Author Enquye W Negash Author Caley M Orr Author Davorka Radovcic Author Lauren Schroeder Author Jill E Scott Author Zachary Throckmorton Author Matthew W Tocheri Author Caroline VanSickle Author Christopher S Walker Author Pianpian Wei Author Bernhard Zipfel text eLife e 09560 2015 4 1 35 journal article 10.7554/eLife.09560 Middle Pleistocene Homo Specimens from the latest Lower Pleistocene and MP of Europe and Africa that cannot be attributed to H. erectus were included in our comparisons. These include fossils that have been attributed to H. heidelbergensis , H. rhodesiensis , ‘archaic H. sapiens ’, or ‘evolved H. erectus ’ by a variety of other authors. Specimens attributed to MP Homo include materials from Eliye Springs, Arago, Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos, Bodo, Broken Hill, Cave of Hearths, Ceprano, Dali, Elandsfontein, Jinniushan, Kapthurin, Mauer, Narmada, Ndutu, Petralona, Reilingen-Schwetzingen, Solo, Steinheim, Swanscombe. This grouping includes the following specimens: KNM-ES 11693, Arago 2, Arago 13, Arago 21, Atapuerca 1, Atapuerca 2, Atapuerca 4, Atapuerca 5, Atapuerca 6, Cave of Hearths, SAM-PQ- EH1, Kabwe, Mauer, Ndutu, Sale´, Petralona, Reilingen-Schwetzingen, Steinheim.