The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over. After a decade of back-and-forth with skeptics, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team are not going to let their hypothesis die: that a small-brained species called Homo naledi was culturally burying their dead long before modern humans were. Their latest peer-reviewed …
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