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Why Did Homo naledi Bury Its Dead?

By Nadia Drake

Sherlock Holmes’s creator might have called it “The Case of the Precocious Pinheads.”

Of all the mysteries surrounding the new human ancestor revealed last week, the one sure to grab the attention of fiction’s most famous detective is how 1,550 bones of the tiny-brained species Homo naledi could have ended up in the remote South African cave where they were found. The chamber is a football field’s length from the cave’s entrance, past two nauseatingly tight passages, the second one a 40-foot vertical drop only eight inches wide in places.

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