Meditation 4.17.19 - A Pen and Ink Tangle
Dear Henry,
Did you hear? There is another branch of the human tree.
On the Philippine island of Luzon, after the discovery of a handful of teeth and small bones were discovered in a cave, science has identified a new type of ancient human.
This one has been christened "Homo luzonensis".
What I hadn't realized, until I heard about this new human type, was that there were a lot more types of humans than I knew. Did you know that in addition to this new discovery, us (Homo sapien) and Neanderthals (Homo neaderthalensis - I owe Jean Auel and her Earth's Children series for my introduction to this species) there were:
Homo hablis/gautengensis (South/East Africa), Homo rudolfensis (Kenya), Homo erectus/cepranensis (Africa, Eurasia), Homo ergaster (South/East Africa), and Homo antecessor/heildelbergensis (Europe/Africa).
Other skeletons that have been found, but not yet classified into a specific homo type yet are:
Rhodesiensis (Zambia), Naledi (South Africa), Floresiensis (Indonesia), Tsaichangensis (Taiwan), Denisova (Siberia), and the Red Deer Cave People (China).
That is a lot of different people and a big part of me wonders what they were all like.
xoxo a.d.
Did you hear? There is another branch of the human tree.
On the Philippine island of Luzon, after the discovery of a handful of teeth and small bones were discovered in a cave, science has identified a new type of ancient human.
This one has been christened "Homo luzonensis".
What I hadn't realized, until I heard about this new human type, was that there were a lot more types of humans than I knew. Did you know that in addition to this new discovery, us (Homo sapien) and Neanderthals (Homo neaderthalensis - I owe Jean Auel and her Earth's Children series for my introduction to this species) there were:
Homo hablis/gautengensis (South/East Africa), Homo rudolfensis (Kenya), Homo erectus/cepranensis (Africa, Eurasia), Homo ergaster (South/East Africa), and Homo antecessor/heildelbergensis (Europe/Africa).
Other skeletons that have been found, but not yet classified into a specific homo type yet are:
Rhodesiensis (Zambia), Naledi (South Africa), Floresiensis (Indonesia), Tsaichangensis (Taiwan), Denisova (Siberia), and the Red Deer Cave People (China).
That is a lot of different people and a big part of me wonders what they were all like.
xoxo a.d.