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b'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'