The news that a team of tiny Wits spelunkers has found a new species of human in the Rising Star Cave 50Km from Johannesburg ricocheted like a bullet around the fossil world. The new creature is described as  “slender, small-brained” and “long-legged”, “pinheaded” and “gangly”. “The males stood about five feet tall, with females a little shorter.” 

The new species has been named Homo naledi. Naledi was a range of wines made by St. Emilion superstar Alain Moueix two decades ago with diminutive Aussie winemaker Graham Knox. It is now part of the Savanna portfolio.

The new discovery should do wonders for sales.