Tag: Lee Berger
Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall
I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons.
Scientists Are Skeptical that Intelligence in Homo naledi “Erases Human Exceptionalism”
Berger et al.’s claims about the species have been disputed and their idea that it lived 2-3 million years ago was exaggerated by a factor of 10.
Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought
Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed.
Disappointment! Homo naledi Is Younger than Previously Thought
Some scientists hoped that H. naledi would prove to be the fossil to bridge an evolutionary gap.
Science Magazine: Australopithecus sediba “Ousted from the Human Family”
There was a lot of hype about this hominid when it was first published in 2010.