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Jun 26, 2020

TIL: A hobbit-like human ancestor was found in Asia. Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and giant lizards on a remote island in Indonesia.

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Dec 27, 2019

TIL African is extraordinarily genetically diverse. An Ethiopian person will likely have less in common genetically with a Sudanese person than they do with people from other continents.

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Jun 20, 2019

TIl that in April of 2019, researchers on the island of Luzon, Phillipines, discovered a new extinct species of homonoids named Homo Luzonensis. This discovery marks the third time in the last 15 years that unexpected ancient human activity has been discovered in Southeast Asia.

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Jun 12, 2019

TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them

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Jun 04, 2019

TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.

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