Enough of the Homo-phobia

Not everyone has welcomed the arrival of Homo naledi, announced by Wits University professor Lee Berger to the world recently. One critic, University of Berkeley palaeontology professor Tim White, said it might not be a new species at all, but Homo erectus.Now Berger's co-author on the Naledi paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor John Hawks, has hit back at White and other critics.