Homo luzonensis
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Homo luzonensis, also known as Callao Man and locally called "Ubag" after a mythical caveman, is an extinct, possibly pygmy, species of archaic human from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippine
Luzonensis Molars
Homo luzonensis metatarsal
Interior of Callao Cave, Luzon, the Philippines
Comparison of teeth (above) and foot phalanges (below) of A. afarensis (left), H. luzonensis (center), and modern humans (right)
Homo floresiensis
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Homo floresiensis, also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit", is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000
Homo luzonensis
…placement of H. luzonensis is unknown, and, like for other tropical hominins, DNA extraction failed. It is possible that—like what is hypothesized for H. floresiensis from Flores, Indonesia—H. luzonensis descended from an early H. erectus dispersal across Southeast Asia. It is also possible that these two insular…
Homo Florensiensis MGL 95216 P5030051 white
Liang Bua Cave, where the specimens were discovered
Skeleton at the Natural History Museum, London
LB1 (left) vs. microcephalic human (right)