Possible New Human Species Discovered on Luzon Island in the Philippines

[jim mcnamara]

A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines
Florent Détroit, Armand Salvador Mijares, Julien Corny, Guillaume Daver, Clément Zanolli, Eusebio Dizon, Emil Robles, Rainer Grün & Philip J. Piper
Naturevolume 568, pages181–186 (2019)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...-be-new-human-species/?utm_term=.c37355b07207

 

[BillTre]

Very interesting.

Luzon is the 15th largest island in the world.
To me, this seems kind of large for insular dwarfism to occur (a favored explanation), but who knows.
Perhaps there were small guys, partly habitating in trees, elsewhere before they got there.
H. nedali, for example, was only ~5 feet tall.