Unknown Human Species Lifted From The Soils Of The Philippines
DISCOVERED IN THE PHILIPPINES – The discovery of unknown human species that lived 50,000 years ago in Luzon added another branch to the human family tree.
There has been some new discoveries in the Philippines.
The recently found remains of the early species of humans in Luzon was found to be a distant ancient relative and not a direct ancestor of homo sapiens or ‘modern day’ humans.
The species were called ‘homo luzonensis’ derived from the name of island where they were found. Their bones and teeth were discovered in Callao Cave by a group of researchers from France, Philippines and Australia.
According to a journal by Nature, “…the remarkable discovery of one such human relative that will no doubt ignite plenty of scientific debate over the coming weeks, months and years.”
The species were present in between 50,000-67,000 years ago. And they walked the lands together with other hominins related to the genus Homo.
Specifically, the hominins mentioned may include: Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo floresiensis
It was also posted on the web journal that the rapid change in the knowledge about the evolutionary processes of hominin in Asia could be a catalyst for re-examination of prior ideas about the dispersion of early hominin from the islands of Africa to Eurasia.
The discovered Luzonensis had curved fingers and toe bones. It also had a foot bone that is similar to those human species know to have existed in Africa 2-3 million years back.
This lead to belief that climbing must have been one of the necessary behaviors of the luzonensis. But Detroit claimed that researchers believe that the species walked upright.
The species were small and stood at least four feet tall.
That is all there is to if for now, we’ll post updates as soon as we got them.
