An article published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” describes a research on the possible characteristics of the brain of the hominins called Homo naledi discovered in 2013 in South Africa. A team of researchers laser scanned seven fragments of the skulls discovered to create a 3D model that could reproduce their brains’ imprints. The result is that those brains were indeed small but many aspects of their structure were substantially the same as those of Homo sapiens.