{"id":11785,"date":"2023-06-07T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11785"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:56:23","slug":"who-are-homo-naledi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-homo-naledi\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Homo Naledi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Homo Naledi:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Homo naledi is a <strong>previously-unknown species of extinct hominin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fossil\u00a0 of Homo Naledi were <strong>first discovered in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa<\/strong> during an expedition led by Lee Berger beginning October 2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This excavation <strong>remains the largest collection of a single hominin species<\/strong> that has been found in Africa.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where Lived: South Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When Lived: 335,000 &#8211; 236,000 years ago<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Height: Approximately 4 ft 9 in (1.44m<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight: Estimates range from 88 \u2013 123lbs<\/strong> (39.7 \u2013 55.8kg).<\/li>\n<li>Homo naledi <strong>appears to have lived near the same time as early ancestors of modern humans.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Homo naledi <strong>shared some similarities with humans, like walking upright and manipulating objects by hand<\/strong>, but members of the species <strong>had smaller heads<\/strong>, a <strong>shorter stature<\/strong>, and were thinner and more <strong>powerfully built.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Homo naledi\u2019s <strong>shoulders \u2014 which were oriented for better climbing<\/strong> \u2014 and teeth shared similarities with earlier hominins like Australopithecus.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Anatomic features that H. naledi had in co<strong>mmon with other members of Homo include reduced cheek teeth and similar jaws and feet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are hominin species?<\/h3>\n<p>Hominin \u2013 the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/homo-naledi-long-lost-human-species-buried-their-dead-and-carved-cave-symbols-say-scientists-8648488\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Homo naledi, long-lost human species, buried their dead and carved cave symbols, say scientists<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}