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    Callao Man

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    Archaeologists in the Philippines discovered fossils of a previously unknown human species, Homo luzonensis, on Luzon Island. The fossils were dated to over 50,000 years ago and included foot, hand, and leg bones as well as teeth. Analysis showed that Homo luzonensis had physical traits suited to climbing trees but also walked upright on two legs. This discovery provides new insights into the development of the human species in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Learning about ancestral human species helps people understand our origins and development as a modern species.

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    Callao Man

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    Archaeologists in the Philippines discovered fossils of a previously unknown human species, Homo luzonensis, on Luzon Island. The fossils were dated to over 50,000 years ago and included foot, hand, and leg bones as well as teeth. Analysis showed that Homo luzonensis had physical traits suited to climbing trees but also walked upright on two legs. This discovery provides new insights into the development of the human species in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Learning about ancestral human species helps people understand our origins and development as a modern species.

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    Archaeologists in the Philippines discovered fossils of a previously unknown human species, Homo luzonensis, on Luzon Island. The fossils were dated to over 50,000 years ago and included foot, hand, and leg bones as well as teeth. Analysis showed that Homo luzonensis had physical traits suited to climbing trees but also walked upright on two legs. This discovery provides new insights into the development of the human species in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Learning about ancestral human species helps people understand our origins and development as a modern species.

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    Callao Man

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    Dave Evangelio
    Archaeologists in the Philippines discovered fossils of a previously unknown human species, Homo luzonensis, on Luzon Island. The fossils were dated to over 50,000 years ago and included foot, hand, and leg bones as well as teeth. Analysis showed that Homo luzonensis had physical traits suited to climbing trees but also walked upright on two legs. This discovery provides new insights into the development of the human species in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Learning about ancestral human species helps people understand our origins and development as a modern species.

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    With Philippines having more than 7,000 islands, it is considered as one in a million

    discoveries for archaeologists to find a cache of carved rhino bones and hundreds of
    stone tools on the largest island in the Philippines, Luzon. This is the Callao Man also
    known as ‘Homo Luzonensis’, known as the second dwarf human. Homo Luzonensis
    were the only hominids that inhabited Luzon Island. While exploring the rocky floor and
    the cold caves of Callao Cave on Luzon Island, researchers uncovered a number of
    fossils from what might be an ancient human species that have never been discovered
    before. Archaeologists are curious who exactly these ancient people were and how they
    crossed the deep seas that covered the island and others in South East Asia.

    Homo luzonensis, this species inhabited Luzon more than 50,000 years ago. They lived
    at the same time with the more advanced species the Homo neanderthalensis and the
    Homo sapiens, or modern humans. These early humans also lived at the same time as
    the “Hobbit” species, Homo floresiensis a species found in Indonesia, but their tooth and
    foot shape, along with other traits, mark them as a distinct species all their own. Back in
    2007, archaeologists in Luzon discovered a single foot bone (or metatarsal) in Callao
    Cave, which they dated to 67,000 years ago. Analysis of that fossil suggested it
    belonged to a member of the genus Homo, but they didn’t know which species. The
    fossils found in the cave—including several foot and hand bones, a partial femur and
    teeth—shared some with more primitive hominin species such as Australopithecus and
    Homo erectus, as well as more advanced ones, including Homo sapiens and Homo
    floresiensis. The fossils found in the cave included several foot and hand bones, partial
    femur and teeth. What really got me interested was the teeth, as there are no other
    species that have the same traits as the Homo Luzonensis. The foot bones they dug up
    is different from the bones that you’d see today, the bones had features which would’ve
    made climbing trees easier and while still walking on two legs upright.

    Discovering and finding our pasts feels really satisfying, it is like being able to move one
    more step towards completely understanding who we really are. This discovery is a
    great stepping stone for us to gain understanding about how the Filipino race developed
    and give us a background study of how our ancestors live in the past. We should
    investigate and study our pasts and see how different or how similar they lived to us
    modern humans. Through learning more about our past we can all develop the same
    sense of appreciation towards how our ancestors continued to prolong and develop our
    species. Without them we would probably be stuck in a more primitive era of humans.

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