Archaic Hominin Species Buried Only Their Women: Ancient proteins recovered from the teeth of Homo naledi fossils tell the tale

An entire ancient human species, Homo naledi, is known from specimens found at just one site in South Africa, back in 2013.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

Archaic Hominin Species Buried Only Their Women: Ancient proteins recovered from the teeth of Homo naledi fossils tell the tale