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Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved cave walls about 250,000 years ago, according to new research.

“We have identified a unique developmental pattern seen exclusively in Homo sapiens.” “Microscopically, this is reflected in reduced amounts of bone resorption [in modern humans], indicative ...