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Evidence of New Human Species Found in Philippines
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 10, 2019 1:00 p.m. ET | Robert Lee Hotz

Posted on 04/10/2019 12:39:58 PM PDT by Candor7

In a handful of fossilized teeth and bones, scientists say they’ve found evidence of a previously unknown human species that lived in what is now the Philippines about 50,000 years ago. The discovery deepens the mystery of an era when the world was a melting pot of many different human kinds on the move.

Small-jawed with dainty teeth, able to walk upright but with feet still shaped to climb, these island creatures were a mix-and-match patchwork of primitive and advanced features in a unique variation of the human form, the scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.(Snip)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fossil; godsgravesglyphs; humanspecies; limestone; multiregionalism; philippines
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Surfing the limestone caves in the Philippines was dangerous.
1 posted on 04/10/2019 12:39:58 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Fred Nerks; LucyT

Ping to yet another subspecies of human evolution.


2 posted on 04/10/2019 12:41:11 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Is that new human species currently running the Australian government? /s


3 posted on 04/10/2019 12:41:19 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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“Evidence of New Human Species Found in Philippines,”

After having met a few, I’ve been saying this for decades.


4 posted on 04/10/2019 12:42:59 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Candor7

Define subspecies.

And why does the headline say only species?


5 posted on 04/10/2019 12:43:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Candor7

New species? Homo seckchual?


6 posted on 04/10/2019 12:45:12 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Candor7

Homo infectus.


7 posted on 04/10/2019 12:47:39 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Candor7

What are “dainty” teeth????


8 posted on 04/10/2019 12:49:58 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Candor7

The species might be “unknown”, but at 50,000 years old, it isn’t new.


9 posted on 04/10/2019 12:56:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Candor7

Could these be related to Homo floresiensis the hobbits of Indonesia? Those archipelagos might have all been connected back then.


10 posted on 04/10/2019 12:56:36 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: JBW1949
Likely didn't look like this dude's...
11 posted on 04/10/2019 12:57:39 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Candor7

12 posted on 04/10/2019 12:59:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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“...able to walk upright but with feet still shaped to climb...”

Unlikely to be genus Homo.


13 posted on 04/10/2019 12:59:48 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: ifinnegan

The headline says species because the first sentence says species.


14 posted on 04/10/2019 1:03:25 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: House Atreides

The New Zealand government, yes


15 posted on 04/10/2019 1:05:34 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Candor7; SunkenCiv
Bones, Teeth Found In Philippine Cave Could Be New Species Of Human, Researchers Say
16 posted on 04/10/2019 1:07:37 PM PDT by blam
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“Welcome to the party, pal.” (Bruce Willis in Die Hard)


17 posted on 04/10/2019 1:08:45 PM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: Candor7

https://theuniverseandman.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/the-little-people-of-the-andaman-islands/


18 posted on 04/10/2019 1:08:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Candor7
More details here....

New human species found in Philippines

New species, my derriere.

19 posted on 04/10/2019 1:10:46 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Candor7

Strange that no other human species “kinds” managed to survive.


20 posted on 04/10/2019 1:15:40 PM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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