A tiny, long-lost cousin of our own human species has been discovered:
The creatures may have been only about 3 feet tall, which is roughly the size of the fictional“We can only speculate but it might be only in the range of a pygmy Homo sapiens,” Mijares toldThe right upper teeth of one of the newly discovered species Homo luzonensis. From left are two premolars and 3 molars. In a study released April 10, 2019, scientists report that tests on two samples from the species show minimum ages of 50,000 years and 67,000 years.
The species lived in eastern Asia around the same time as our species and other members of the Homo branch, including Neanderthals, their little-understood Siberian cousins the Denisovans, and the diminutive “hobbits” of the island of Flores in Indonesia. The"remarkable discovery ... will no doubt ignite plenty of scientific debate over the coming weeks, months and years," said anthropologist
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