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'... ancient #humans remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa [....] Despite showing some primitive traits it lived relatively recently, perhaps as little as 235,000 years ago.
That would mean the naledi people could have overlapped with the earliest of our kind - Homo sapiens...'
– http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39842975
Our cousins the Homo naledi
'The species is characterized by a body mass and stature similar to small-bodied human populations, a smaller endocranial volume similar to Australopithecus, and a skull shape similar to early Homo species. The skeletal anatomy presents ancestral features known from australopithecines with more recent features associated with later hominins.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_naledi