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ENCORE Meet your new relatives.\xa0\xa0The fossilized bones of Homo naledi are unique for their sheer number, but they may also be fill a special slot in our ancestry: the first of our genus Homo.\xa0\xa0Sporting modern hands and feet but only a tiny brain, this creature may link us and our ape-like ancestors.\xa0\xa0\xa0\nSome anthropologists hail the discovery as that of a new hominid species.\xa0Not all their colleagues agree.\xa0Find out what\u2019s at stake in the debate.\xa0\nAlso, the scientist who helped retrieve the fossils describes her perilous crawl through a cave with only ten inches of elbow room.\xa0And a radical theory about what these old bones might mean: could they be from a burial two million years ago?\nGuests:\n\n\nMarina Elliott \xa0\u2013 Paleoanthropologist, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa\n\n\nCarl Ward \u2013 Biological anthropologist, University of Missouri\n\n\nJohn Hawks- Anthropologist, University of Wisconsin, Madison\n\n\nTim White - Anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices