Stone Age burials: SA palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger and team unearth riveting discoveries
Manipulation of symbols among non-human species could have a much more complicated and dynamic history than previously thought, say scholars
06 June 2023 - 17:59
When famed palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger challenged the history of human evolution in 2015 by raising the idea that Homo naledi, a small-brained predecessor of humans, buried their dead at least 100,000 years before Homo sapiens, the evidence to support this controversial theory was limited...
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