Comparative Study

.2019 Apr;568(7751):181-186.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9. Epub 2019 Apr 10.

A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines

Florent Détroit¹, Armand Salvador Mijares^{2 3}, Julien Corny⁴, Guillaume Daver⁵, Clément Zanolli^{6 7}, Eusebio Dizon⁸, Emil Robles⁹, Rainer Grün^{10 11}, Philip J Piper^{8 12}

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¹ Département Homme & Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, CNRS, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France. florent.detroit@mnhn.fr.
² Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, The Philippines. mandy24_us@yahoo.com.
³ National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines. mandy24_us@yahoo.com.
⁴ Département Homme & Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, CNRS, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France.
⁵ Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), UMR 7262, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
⁶ Laboratoire PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
⁷ Laboratoire AMIS, UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
⁸ National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines.
⁹ Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, The Philippines.
¹⁰ Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
¹¹ Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
¹² School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

PMID:30971845
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9

Comparative Study

A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines

Florent Détroit et al. Nature.2019 Apr.

.2019 Apr;568(7751):181-186.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9. Epub 2019 Apr 10.

Authors

Florent Détroit¹, Armand Salvador Mijares^{2 3}, Julien Corny⁴, Guillaume Daver⁵, Clément Zanolli^{6 7}, Eusebio Dizon⁸, Emil Robles⁹, Rainer Grün^{10 11}, Philip J Piper^{8 12}

Affiliations

¹ Département Homme & Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, CNRS, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France. florent.detroit@mnhn.fr.
² Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, The Philippines. mandy24_us@yahoo.com.
³ National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines. mandy24_us@yahoo.com.
⁴ Département Homme & Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, CNRS, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France.
⁵ Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), UMR 7262, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
⁶ Laboratoire PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
⁷ Laboratoire AMIS, UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
⁸ National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines.
⁹ Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, The Philippines.
¹⁰ Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
¹¹ Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
¹² School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

PMID:30971845
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9

Abstract

A hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007 in Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, the Philippines) and dated to 67 thousand years ago provided the earliest direct evidence of a human presence in the Philippines. Analysis of this foot bone suggested that it belonged to the genus Homo, but to which species was unclear. Here we report the discovery of twelve additional hominin elements that represent at least three individuals that were found in the same stratigraphic layer of Callao Cave as the previously discovered metatarsal. These specimens display a combination of primitive and derived morphological features that is different from the combination of features found in other species in the genus Homo (including Homo floresiensis and Homo sapiens) and warrants their attribution to a new species, which we name Homo luzonensis. The presence of another and previously unknown hominin species east of the Wallace Line during the Late Pleistocene epoch underscores the importance of island Southeast Asia in the evolution of the genus Homo.

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Previously unknown human species found in Asia raises questions about early hominin dispersals from Africa.
Tocheri MW.Tocheri MW.Nature. 2019 Apr;568(7751):176-178. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01019-7.Nature. 2019.PMID:30971838No abstract available.

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