12-12-2022-1809 - New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa

1. Evolutionary Biology

New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa

1. John Hawks,
2. Marina Elliott,
3. Peter Schmid,
4. Steven E Churchill,
5. Darryl J de Ruiter,
6. Eric M Roberts,
7. Hannah Hilbert-Wolf,
8. Heather M Garvin,
9. Scott A Williams
• University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa;
• University of Wisconsin, United States;
• University of Zürich, Winterthurerstr, Switzerland;
• Duke University, United States;
• Texas A&M University, United States;
• James Cook University, Australia;
• Mercyhurst University, United States;
• New York University, United States;
• New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, United States
May 9, 2017
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24232

 

Figure 5

LES1 cranium.

Clockwise from upper left: three-quarter, frontal, superior and left lateral views. Fragments of the right temporal, the parietal and the occipital have also been recovered (not pictured), but …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24232.008

Figure 7

Frontal and vault morphology in H. naledi compared to that in other hominin species.

Several of the crania pictured here are similar to H. naledi in endocranial volume, including Sts 5, MH1, KNM-ER 1813, and D2282, representing four different species. However, these skulls contrast …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24232.010

 

Figure 12

Occlusal view of H. naledi mandibular teeth compared to those of other hominins.

Teeth from the canine to the third molar are shown, if present, in the orientation in which they are found within the mandible. All individuals are aligned vertically by the distal margin of the …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24232.015

 https://elifesciences.org/articles/24232#fig5