POE;QUESTION 2;Findings of Lee Berger from Wits university.

Homo Naledi is an extinct species of hominin first described in 2015 and assigned by the anthropologists to the genus Homo.In 2013 fossil skeletons were found in south africa gauteng province in the Rising Star Cave system,part of the cadle or Humankind World Heritage Site.As of 10 september 2015 ,fossils of at least fifteen individuals amounting to 1550 specimens,have been excavated from the cave. This species is characterized by a body mass and stature to small bodied human populations a smaller endocranial volume similar to Australopithecus and a skull shape similar to early Homo species.The skeletan anatomy presents ancestral features known from australopithecines with more recent features associated with hominins.The fossils have not been dated. The fossils were discovered by recreational cavers Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker in 2013.Homo Naledi was formally described in september 2015 by a 47 members international team of authors led by American and South African paleonthropologist Lee Berger of the university of witwatersrand who proposed the bones represent a new homo species. The word naledi means a star in the sotho language. It was choosen to correspond to the name of Dinaledi chamber of the rising star cave system where fossils were found.