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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12162129/Worlds-oldest-known-burial-site-S-Africa-scientists.html
World's oldest burial site challenges human evolution:
Scientists discover small-brained primitive species that
lived more than 200,000 years ago marked their dead
with symbols
The remains belong to an extinct human species known as
Homo naledi
Scientists found the remains were buried and the dead
marked with symbols
. . .
This burial cave was discovered not so long ago.
Many bones - but now closer examination shows
that the bones weren't just dumped in there, but
"sanctified" as well.
Naledi had a brain roughly the size of an orange,
yet we see very "human" aspects here. Maybe they
got more bang for the brain cell than we ???
Larger is good, but efficiency counts too. Some
birds like parrots with brains the size of a small
grape can demonstrate considerable intelligence.
Their dino-derived brains are very efficient.
Scale it up to our body mass and they'd have
IQs of around 300.
What did the Naledi grave markings MEAN ? We may
never know. However is is now clear that they
were intentional, some kind of 'epitaph'. That
takes a certain depth of thought.
We may be short-changing the ancestors. Hablis,
Erectus, the Neanderthals ... more "a different
kind of human" than "non-human". Even "Lucy" ...
what was going through her head ? Not a "monkey".
SOME mutation(s) very early on did a big job
on our family tree - amplifying 'consciousness'
considerably.
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