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Homo naledi debate: Humans don't come from baboons

Monday, 14 September 2015, 09:18
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Homo naledi debate: Humans don't come from baboons
While the South African Council of Churches (SACC) says it’s celebrating the discovery of Homo naledi with the world, it doesn't approve the theory that ‘humans come from baboons’.
NATIONAL NEWS - While the South African Council of Churches (SACC) says it’s celebrating the discovery of Homo naledi with the world, it doesn't approve the theory that ‘humans come from baboons’.

The SACC has reacted to comments regarding the discovery of Homo naledi, saying comments which border on insulting the personhood of people by calling them baboons is extremely dangerous.

Former Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi took to social media, where he tweeted that no one will dig old monkey bones to back up a theory that he was once a baboon.
 

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