HOMO-NALEDI ONE OF OUR GRAET GREAT GRANDFATHERS?

Okay hmmmmmn he looks like one of those images of species we were shown in our intergrated science texbooks abi..?my view,what do you think?

Homo naledi is a strange mosaic of the ancient and the thoroughly modern.

Naledi's brain was no bigger than an orange, scientists say. Its hands are superficially human-like, but the finger bones are locked into a curve
-- a trait that suggests climbing and tool-using capabilities.

Homo naledi was relatively big: it stood about 5 feet tall, had long legs, and its feet are almost identical to ours, suggesting it had the ability to walk long distances.

The braincase of a male Homo naledi is less than half the size of the modern human skull.

"Overall, Homo naledi looks like one of the most primitive members of our genus, but it also has some surprisingly human-like features, enough to warrant placing it in the genus Homo," says John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a senior author on the papers describing the new species that were published Thursday.

The scientists can make these claims, in part, because of the sheer scale of the find.

In the vault at the University of Witwatersrand, hundreds of priceless specimens lie in padded cases across the room.

So far they've unearthed more than 1,500 fossil remains in total -- the largest single hominin find yet revealed on the continent of Africa, the cradle of human evolution.