Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years
ago
T Ingicco, GD vd Bergh ... J de Vos 2018
Nature doi 10.1038/s41586-018-0072-8 <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0072-8.ris>

... This evidence pushes back the proven period of colonization of the Philippines by hundreds of thousands of years, and suggests that early overseas dispersal in Island SE.Asia by premodern hominins took place several times during the Early and Middle
Pleistocene ...

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This is fantastic news: Homo erectus-like people on the Philippines possibly more than 700 thousand years ago? If this is correct, it suggests that the traditional idea that human ancestors evolved directly from forests to open plains might be wrong.
Instead, it seems to corroborate waterside theories of human evolution,
google e.g. "Ape and Human Evolution 2018 Biology vs Anthropocentrism".

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