Our small-brained human relative Homo naledi may have buried its dead, controlled fire and made art

Researchers working in the Rising Star cave system near Johannesburg, South Africa, report that they have found evidence that the small-brained fossil human species Homo naledi engaged in several sophisticated behaviors that were previously associated exclusively with large-brained hominins. The findings are preliminary, but if future research bears them out, scientists may need to rethink how we became human.