New species of ancient human unearthed in the Philippines

New species of ancient human unearthed in the Philippines

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/new-species-ancient-human-unearthed-philippines

About 67,000 years ago, Callao Cave on Luzon in the Philippines was home to an unusual human.

A strange new species may have joined the human family. Human fossils found in a cave on Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, include tiny molars suggesting their owners were small; curved finger and toe bones hint that they climbed trees. Homo luzonensis, as the species has been christened, lived some 50,000 to 80,000 years ago, when the world hosted multiple archaic humans, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, and when H. sapiens may have been making its first forays into Southeast Asia.

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