We Homo sapiens have a new cousin, and the back-story is awesome. A recently discovered species — Homo naledi — may have walked the earth earlier than before thought: at the same time as our direct ancestors did. Their features “seemed modern, almost human … but their brains were as small as a gorilla’s.” Oh, and they may also have been burying their dead. The National Geographic has a deep dive into the news for you anthropology geeks out there, and its fall 2015 cover story dives deeper into how Homo naledi could change our view of our own evolution. The Washington Post also does a good job of digging into the debate over whether the Naledi was burying its dead, noting that, “Ritual disposal of the dead is an advanced behavior, suggesting that a species was capable of symbolic thought and saw itself as separate from the natural world. Only humans and Neanderthals have been conclusively found to bury their dead.”