Analysis of bones, believed to be at least 50,000 and 67,000 years old, led the study authors to conclude they belonged to a previously unknown member of the ‘Homo’ branch of our evolutionary tree
Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the rest of the world.
The main exodus of our own species from Africa that all of today’s non-African people are descended from took place around 60,000 years ago. There’s no sign that H. luzonensis encountered any other member of the Homo group, Detroit said in an e-mail. Our species isn’t known to have reached the Philippines until thousands of years after the age of the bones, he said.But some human relative was on Luzon more than 700,000 years ago, as indicated by the presence of stone tools and a butchered rhino dating to that time, he said. It might have been the newfound species or an ancestor of it, he said in an e-mail.
Tocheri, who did not participate it the new report, agreed that both H. luzonensis and the hobbits may have descended from H. erectus. But he said the Philippines discovery gives new credence to an alternate view: Maybe some unknown creature other than H. erectus also slipped out of Africa and into Europe and Asia, and later gave rise to both island species.
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