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Detailed explanation-1: -New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis. Researchers digging in the Philippines’s Callao Cave found teeth and bones that they say belong to a distinct species of ancient human, which they have named Homo luzonensis.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Callao Cave bones have a unique combination of primitive and modern human traits, leading the researchers to classify them as an entirely new species: Homo luzonensis. The seven teeth found were of particular interest to the researchers. Oddly small molars are similar in shape to those of H. sapiens.

Detailed explanation-3: -A hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007 in Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, the Philippines) and dated to 67 thousand years ago provided the earliest direct evidence of a human presence in the Philippines.

Detailed explanation-4: -Researchers have announced the naming of a newly discovered species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. The species lived in Africa about 500,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene age, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans, according to scientists.