Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa
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Lee R Berger
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John Hawks
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Darryl J de Ruiter
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Steven E Churchill
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Peter Schmid
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Lucas K Delezene
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Tracy L Kivell
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Heather M Garvin
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Scott A Williams
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Jeremy M DeSilva
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Matthew M Skinner
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Charles M Musiba
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Noel Cameron
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Trenton W Holliday
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William Harcourt-Smith
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Rebecca R Ackermann
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Markus Bastir
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Barry Bogin
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Debra Bolter
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Juliet Brophy
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Zachary D Cofran
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Kimberly A Congdon
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Andrew S Deane
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Mana Dembo
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Michelle Drapeau
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Marina C Elliott
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, Elen M Feuerriegel
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Daniel Garcia-Martinez
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David J Green
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Alia Gurtov
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Joel D Irish
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Ashley Kruger
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Myra F Laird
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Damiano Marchi
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Marc R Meyer
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Shahed Nalla
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Enquye W Negash
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Caley M Orr
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Davorka Radovcic
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Lauren Schroeder
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Jill E Scott
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Zachary Throckmorton
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Matthew W Tocheri
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Caroline VanSickle
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Christopher S Walker
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Pianpian Wei
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Bernhard Zipfel
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eLife e 09560
2015
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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.