News of a new expedition to look for human ancestor fossils in South Africa -
The Rising Star Expedition will be delving into a cave of the same name outside Johannesburg in South Africa. They will try and recover recently found fossils that are thought to be of a possibly new hominid species.
See reports
Rising Star Expedition launched from University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 6 Nov 2013
Excavation of Human Ancestor Fossils Begins in South African Cave in National Geographic Daily News, 6 Nov 2013.
In recent years new finds mean that the earlier thoughts on hominid/human evolution are being revised. See the Georgia hominid skull report.
You can follow the expedition progress here .
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2015 update on the finds, see my blog Homo naledi, a new species of human ancestor from South Africa .
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