Biggest single find of hominin fossils yet unearthed in Africa suggests new species of human may have buried its dead, writes Tamar Kahn TWO years ago when University of the Witwatersrand paleoanthropologist Lee Berger announced he had recruited a team of extra skinny scientists to slither into a cave in the Cradle of Humankind to recover a veritable treasure trove of fossils, he was met with a fair degree of scepticism from the scientific community.With a larger-than life personality, Prof Berger has often been charged by his peers with overstating the significance of his finds. The scale of his latest find means he is unlikely to be accused of making a mountain out of a molehill, but the fact that his team has not put a firm age on the fossils may prove controversial.Prof Berger and his team on Thursday announced their discovery of a new species of human ancestor, dubbed Homo naledi.It is the biggest single find of hominin fossils yet unearthed in Africa, with 1,550 specimens from...
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