{"id":212540,"date":"2016-02-24T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=212540"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:16:35","slug":"collective-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/collective-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_212541\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212541\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Estrat_Esqueleto_Brett-Eloff_.jpg\" alt=\"Berger and the bones: small, skinny helpers \" width=\"290\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Estrat_Esqueleto_Brett-Eloff_.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Estrat_Esqueleto_Brett-Eloff_-120x181.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Estrat_Esqueleto_Brett-Eloff_-250x377.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">BRETT ELOFF<\/span>Berger and the bones: small, skinny helpers<span class=\"media-credits\">BRETT ELOFF<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paleontologist Lee Berger, of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, devised a creative way to meet a challenge. In October 2013, he turned to the internet to ask colleagues for help with one of the most difficult excavations of his career, at Rising Star Cave in South Africa. \u201cDear colleagues, I need the help of the whole community\u201d began his post on a social network. \u201cThe catch is this\u2014the person must be skinny and preferably small. They must not be claustrophobic, they must be fit, they should have some caving experience,\u201d the message read. Berger had just discovered a small underground chamber filled with fossil remains. However, the location was very deep and hard to reach. Six researchers fitting the required description responded to his plea for help. They had to crawl through passages no more than 20 centimeters wide, but it worked. Over 1,500 pieces of collected bones and teeth proved to belong to a previously unknown hominid species. The feat was described in the magazine eLife and announced on September 10, 2015. The primate was baptized <em>Homo naledi<\/em>. In the Sesotho language, one of South Africa\u2019s 11 official tongues, <em>naledi<\/em> means \u201cstar.\u201d <em>Homo<\/em>, as we know, is the genus to which modern humans belong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paleontologists found fossil remains of a previously unknown hominid species","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[202,231,241,255],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-212540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-archaeology","tag-evolution","tag-history","tag-paleontology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212540"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=212540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}