Scientists have discovered the remains of pre-human ancestors inside a cave in the Philippines,
Known as the Homo Luzonensis, who got its name from Luzon, an island in the Philippines, is basically a mix of both the older and more recent types of humans in terms of its physical features.
The recent discovery is really important as many believe it can be a piece of evidence that could prove that humans left Africa and came to South East Asia, something that has not been considered as possible until the recent discovery was made.
Professor Chris Stringer, a scientist from the National History Museum said, “After the remarkable finds of the diminutive Homo floresiensis were published in 2004, I said that the experiment in human evolution conducted on Flores could have been repeated on many of the other islands in the region. That speculation has seemingly been confirmed on the island of Luzon… nearly 3,000km away.”
In the Callao Cave, scientists found 13 remains that are around 67,000 and 50,000 years old. The remains even have their teeth, hand and feet bones, and something that looks like a leg bone.
Scientists believe that the bones belong to 3 adults and younger people.
With the remains, scientists can determine that Homo luzonensis were really similar to us who shared some characteristics with other walking apes that are called australopithecines who lived in Africa several million years ago.
Scientists said that from the looks of their curved toe and finger bones, they believe they did a lot of climbing.
The most interesting thing about the recent discovery is that if the Homo luzonensis are similar to the australopithecines, which would mean that they left Africa to reach Asia.
Everyone thought that the Homo erectus left Africa 1.9 Million years ago, but this would be changed. Especially because Luzon is only accessible via the ocean, which raises a big question, How did they even get there in the first place?