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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Dirty Nucleic Acid!
We’ll have to wash it first. You never know where it has been!..............
Transparent pretexts are my favorite kind. Here's the dirty DNA researcher's anthem! ;^)
Thunder: Dirty Love
There are many tribes of ‘little people’ in the Philippines, my guess is they are the descendants of the ‘new species’ that are the subject of this article.
ETHNONYMS: Aeta, Atta, Baluga, Batak, Dumagat, Mamanwa, Pugut
The Negritos of the Philippines are comprised of approximately twenty-five widely scattered ethnolinguistic groups totaling an estimated 15,000 people. They are located on several major islands in the country: Luzon, Palawan, Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Mindanao. They are assumed to be the aboriginal inhabitants of the archipelago...
Negrito Aeta woman, Luzon, Philippines
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