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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 theyve 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.
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:39:58 PM PDT
by
Candor7
To: Fred Nerks; LucyT
Ping to yet another subspecies of human evolution.
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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)
To: Candor7
Is that new human species currently running the Australian government? /s
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:41:19 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
To: House Atreides
“Evidence of New Human Species Found in Philippines,”
After having met a few, I’ve been saying this for decades.
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:42:59 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: Candor7
Define subspecies.
And why does the headline say only species?
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:43:03 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Candor7
New species? Homo seckchual?
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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)
To: Candor7
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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.")
To: Candor7
What are “dainty” teeth????
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:49:58 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Candor7
The species might be “unknown”, but at 50,000 years old, it isn’t new.
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:56:06 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Candor7
Could these be related to Homo floresiensis the hobbits of Indonesia? Those archipelagos might have all been connected back then.
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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.)
To: JBW1949
Likely didn't look like
this dude's...
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posted on
04/10/2019 12:57:39 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Candor7
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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.)
To: Candor7
“...able to walk upright but with feet still shaped to climb...”
Unlikely to be genus Homo.
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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.")
To: ifinnegan
The headline says species because the first sentence says species.
To: House Atreides
The New Zealand government, yes
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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))
To: Candor7; SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/10/2019 1:07:37 PM PDT
by
blam
“Welcome to the party, pal.” (Bruce Willis in Die Hard)
To: Candor7
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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....................)
To: Candor7
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posted on
04/10/2019 1:10:46 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Candor7
Strange that no other human species kinds managed to survive.
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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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