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posted by mrpg on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:15AM   Printer-friendly
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Scientists are reporting the discovery of a previously unknown species of ancient human that lived in the Philippines over 50,000 years ago. Evidence suggests the new species, named Homo luzonensis, was exceptionally tiny—and possibly even smaller than the famous Hobbit species uncovered on the island of Flores in 2004.

The story of human evolution just got a hell of a lot messier—and considerably more fascinating—owing to the discovery of a previously unknown human species. Bits of teeth and bone pulled from Callao Cave on the Philippine island of Luzon point to the existence of a distinctly human species, one deserving of the Homo designation in terms of its genus. At the same time, however, the fossils found in Callao Cave exhibit features unlike anything ever seen before, thus warranting the declaration of a completely new human species, Homo luzonensis. The details of this astonishing discovery were published today in Nature.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/new-species-of-tiny-extinct-human-discovered-in-philip-1833942655


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:22AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:22AM (#827810)

    Was there a fraud, in recent memory, where scientists were convinced by a bunch of Philipinos that they were pre-contact stone age people? [news.com.au] And then there is that whole thing where Duterte is not a drug kingpin. Shit, president of the Philippines, and you think he is not raking in the percentage off the top? Someone needs to summarily execute him on the street, just to set an example for other Pinoys pretending to be what they are not.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:31AM (#827819)

    I think body size is something that is very hard to fake. Especially after your death.