New species of homo found

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There's a new addition to the family tree: an extinct species of human that's been found in the Philippines.

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It's known as Homo luzonensis, after the site of its discovery on the country's largest island Luzon. Its physical features are a mixture of those found in very ancient human ancestors and in more recent people. That could mean primitive human relatives left Africa and made it all the way to South-East Asia, something not previously thought possible.

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The find shows that human evolution in the region may have been a highly complicated affair, with three or more human species in the region at around the time our ancestors arrive.

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The new specimens from Callao Cave, in the north of Luzon, are described in the journal Nature.

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