Specimens of Liang Bua, Flores, described by Brown et al., 2004; Morwood et al., 2005, Jungers et al., 2009a, Jungers et al., 2009b, and Falk et al., 2005 were included in this study. H. naledi has anatomical features shared with australopithecines, other features shared with Homo, with multiple features not known in hominid species. This anatomical mosaic is reflected in different regions of the skeleton. The morphology of the skull, lower jaw and dentition largely coincides with the genus Homo, but the brain size of H. naledi is in the range of australopithecines. The lower limb is largely homo-like, and the foot and ankle are particularly human in their configuration, but the pelvis appears to be clearly flared like Au`s. afarensis. The wrists, fingertips and finger proportions are primarily shared with Homo, but the proximal and intermediate manual phalanges are markedly curved, even to a greater extent than in any Australopithecus. The shoulders are largely configured like those of australopithenes. The vertebrae most closely resemble the Pleistocene limbs of the genus Homo, while the thorax is distally as wide as Au. afarensis.

The oldest known stone tools are about 3.3 million years old and were excavated in Kenya. These lomekvik tools were made from volcanic rock and turned into potential cores, flakes and anvils. Although at. afarensis was known from Kenya at that time, the most likely candidate for the toolmaker was another species called Kenyanthropus platyops, as specimens of this hominid were found near where the tools were excavated. The skull of H. naledi differs from Homo rudolfensis in its inferior cranial capacity and by frontal bossing, post-bregmatic depression, sagittal keel, well-developed supraorbital torus bounded by a pronounced supratoral sulcus, temporal lines positioned on the posterior rather than upper surface of the supraorbital torus, occipital torus, external occipital protuberance, only a slight postorbital narrowing, A small postglenoid process, a weak crista, a laterally inflated mastoid process, a dog pit, incisors that protrude anteriorly beyond the bi-canine line, and a flat anterior palate. As in H. habilis, the mandibles, the H. rudolfensis, a weakly inclined, rolling-like postincisal plane with a variably developed superior transverse torus, as opposed to the strongly inclined posterior side of the DH1 mandibular symphysis, the latter having no post-incisive plane or an upper transverse torus. The mandibular symphysis and corpus of H.

naledi are more graceful than those attributed to H. rudolfensis, and the lower jaw H. naledi (DH1) has a superior positioned foramen mentalis on the corpus, which opens posteriorly unlike the height of the middle corpus, which opens laterally on the foramen of H. rudolfensis. The maxillary and mandibular dentition of H. naledi is smaller than that of most H. rudolsensis specimens, with only KNM-ER 60000 and KNM-ER 62000 appearing to be similar in size for some teeth (Leakey et al., 2012). The molars of H. Naledi do not have frizz, secondary fissures or supernumerary cusps, which are common in H. rudolfensis. The oral grooves of the maxillary premolars are weak in H. naledi, and the protoconids and metaconids of the mandibular molars are also mesially positioned.

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