“…First, the publication of the Homo naledi remains ( Berger et al., 2015 ) rekindled the questions of what constitutes this genus and from which ancestral morphotype it originates; some critics proclaiming that this new species is an example of artificial species inflation in paleoanthropology ( Randolph-Quinney, 2015 ). Second, the discovery of early Homo (2.8 Ma) from Ledi-Geraru ( Villmoare et al., 2015a ) was the object of criticisms by competing researchers ( Hawks et al., 2015 ; Villmoare et al., 2015b ). It is clear that the use of the term “early Homo,” given the multiplicity of fossils it encompasses (non- Homo erectus specimens such as Homo sp.…”