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See How Scientists Identified Our New Human Ancestor | National Geographic


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·Nov 11, 2024

We now know what we've done. We've got a new member of the genus Homo, a species that we're going to call Healing the Lady. It's day 29 of a 30-day workshop that is entirely designed to describe and study the first generation of papers on the material from Rising Star. I brought together around 40 to 45 people at any one time, with about thirty to thirty-two early career scientists. It's an entirely unique skill set, as well as differences of opinion using different backgrounds and training, so that we were sure that we would be looking to see whether we could efficiently go through this material in a way no one's ever done before.

So, this is the most complete piece of the pelvis that we have. There's not a whole lot there, but there's actually some very important morphologies preserved on this piece. All these bones were found together; they will come from the same individual. They all come from the same side, but we don't obviously want to do the originals, so we're doing it with a 3D printer. Anyone who walked into that room felt the internet scientific. You could actually feel the room vibrating with it. It's an amazing experience. I've learned tons.

So, the axial skeleton really took a beating in preservation, so we've got lots of little pieces. In an overall size, if we take a look at our vertebra, it's very, very tiny. If we compare it to the smallest known Australopithecus vertebra of a similar level, that belonging to Lucy from Australopithecus afarensis, you can see that our vertebra is actually a fair amount smaller than that of Lucy.

In terms of the cranial team, I didn't know anyone, and we are six ladies early career scientists. We just got together and we just started working it. You know, two of us went over and did the matrix stuff, two of us went off and did non-matrix, and the other two did them. But I think so. At work, every piece of body has kind of like its own story, and now you have to combine all of it and come to a kind of solution for the call.

We work in a pretty contentious field, so I had some fears that there might be some of the things that are controversial. We wouldn't want to say that you're gonna have infighting among the various groups, but it hasn't been that way. I would say it has been a very positive experience. Just the sheer magnitude of material is awesome, and yeah, that's good to be some African.

The teeth in the maxilla are offset a postie, really right, so the maxillary m3 can't touch them. The ability to bounce questions at a moment to each of the cross-pollination scientific ideas—you make less mistakes. I'll bet you that we've spent more in this month in person hours working on this material than we tasted in years and years and years working on their mature. I learned that people could go into paleoanthropology and study do it for love and passion. If you let them loose on these fossils, they create extraordinary things because they're passionate. You.

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