Humanity’s New Cousin & An Ancient Giant Virus

SciShow News shares two amazing things from the deep past that have been discovered: a new ancient human relative, and a 30,000-year-old giant virus.

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Sources:
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/science-homo-naledi-03224.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/10/q-a-new-relative-of-human-species-discovered-in-south-africa/
How ‘Human’ Is This Newly Discovered Species?
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/homo-naledi-rising-star-cave-hominin/404362/
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/06/expedition-underway-to-extract-latest-fossil-find-from-cradle-of-humankind-cave/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/09/an-ancient-giant-virus-was-just-uncovered-in-melting-ice-and-it-wont-be-the-last/?tid=themost_item_3
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/09/02/1510795112
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-00&doc=kb-02-01-02
http://www.nature.com/news/giant-virus-resurrected-from-30-000-year-old-ice-1.14801