How much evidence is enough to declare a new species of human from a Philippines cave site?
- Written by Darren Curnoe, Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
Callao Cave on Luzon Island in The Philippines, where the fossils of _Homo luzonensis_ were discovered. Callao Cave Archaeology Project (Florent Détroit)
The announcement of a new species of ancient human (more correctly hominin) from the Philippines, reported today in Nature, will cause a lot of head-shaking among anthropologists and...