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Dig finds new early human species

AFP, Tokyo
The human family tree has acquired a new branch with the unearthing of a previously unknown species of human that lived on an island in today's Philippines some 50,000 years ago.
The species, dubbed Homo luzonensis after the island of Luzon where its remains were found, is not a direct ancestor of modern day humans, but rather a distant ancient relative.
But the discovery, published in the journal Nature yesterday, adds to a growing body of evidence that human evolution is not as linear as was once thought.
It also raises questions, including how the species arrived on the island and who its ancestors were.The "remarkable discovery... will no doubt ignite plenty of scientific debate over the coming weeks, months and years”, said Matthew Tocheri, associate professor of anthropology at Canada's Lakehead University, in a review commissioned by Nature
The researchers from France, the Philippines and Australia found the remains in the Calio Cave, where a bone dating back 67,000 years was discovered in 2007.
It was not initially clear which type of early human that bone came from, but more recently the researchers discovered seven teeth and five different bones at the site, dating back between 50,000 and 67,000years.
With more evidence to examine, from at least three individuals, they were able to build the case that the remains came from a previously unknown type of human.
"From the beginning, we realised the unusual characteristics of these fossils," Florent Detroit, who co-led the study, told AFP at a press briefing.
“We completed the comparisons and analyses, and it confirmed that this was
something special, unlike any previously described species of hominins in the homo genus," added Detroit, a paleoanthropologist at France's Musee de 1'Homme.
In particular, the teeth they found had a surprising combination of elements from different early humans.
"It's a mixture that we haven't seen in other species," said Detroit.
"And that was what told us, among other things, that this doesn’t correspond to what we know today, so we have described a new species."
But the discovery raises many questions, including how Homo luzonensis got to the island, which researchers say has always a required "a substantial sea crossing" to reach from the mainland.
Researchers are also as yet unsure which of the more ancient human precursors recorded in the fossil record in Africa Homo luzonensis may be descended from.
For a long time, theories of evolution centred around the idea that an early species called Homo erectus began dispersing from Africa between 1.5 million to two million years ago.