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History is rewritten as a new, extinct species of human is discovered in the Philippines

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Anthropologists have discovered the remains of a previously undiscovered, extinct species of human in the Philippines. Estimated to have lived on the islands 50,000 years ago, it deepens the mystery on an era where humanity, and its various sub-species were on the move all over the world.     

Small-jawed with dainty teeth, able to walk upright but with feet still shaped to climb, these island creatures were a mix-and-match patchwork of primitive and advanced features in a unique variation of the human form, the scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Named Homo Luzonensis, in honor the Island of Luzon where it was found, it brings the Philippines to the forefront of the ongoing study to complete the Chain of Evolution of Humanity, where it was once considered a backwater in the field.  

The scientists speculate that the creatures may have died elsewhere and then washed into a deep sinkhole that, over eons of erosion, developed into the modern cave system.

Working with wooden probes, the researchers pried loose several foot and hand bones, a partial thigh bone and teeth from a matrix of cemented sediments. It took three years of field work. The specimens belonged to two adults and a juvenile of the species.

“We recognized them almost immediately as hominin,” said paleoanthropologist Florent Detroit of the Museum of Man at France’s National Natural History Museum in Paris, who was the lead author of the research paper that formally proposed the new species.

“The molars were so tiny, so small. The pre-molars had two or three roots. I thought, Uh-oh,” he said. “This was clearly a human-like something.”

“We don’t know how they got to Luzon,” said Dr. Detroit in Paris. “They crossed the ocean but we don’t know when and we don’t know how, but they did it a long time ago.”

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It’s amazing how there’s been so many subspecies of humans throughought history. Evolution is such an interesting and beautiful thing. It’s always incredible learning something new about our own history and the history of our relatives in the past.

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