Homo sapiens were not as lonely as once thought
THE HUMAN SPECIES is a lonely one. Today there are two species of gorilla, two of chimpanzees and a whopping three species of orang-utan, but just one sort of human. It wasn’t always so. People are familiar with the idea that. In 2004 researchers announced to great fanfare that they had found the bones of a third contemporaneous relative, a rather short human species who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores. This became, and was quickly dubbed the “Hobbit”.
Glimpses of the new species came in 2010, when a collaboration of Philippine, French and Australian researchers announced that they had found a human-like foot bone on Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. The bone was 67,000 years old, meaning its owner was alive shortly beforeventured out of Africa. It was discovered alongside butchered animal bones on an island separated from mainland Asia by a sea.
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