Détroit, FlorentMijares, ArmandCorny, JulienDaver, GuillaumeZanolli, ClémentDizon, Eusebio Z.Robles, Emil CharlesGrun, RainerPiper, Philip2019-11-25Détroit, F., Mijares, A.S., Corny, J. et al. A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines. Nature 568, 181–186 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1067-90028-0836http://hdl.handle.net/1885/186561A 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. Analysis of this foot bone suggested that it belonged to the genus Homo, but to which species was unclear. Here we report the discovery of twelve additional hominin elements that represent at least three individuals that were found in the same stratigraphic layer of Callao Cave as the previously discovered metatarsal. These specimens display a combination of primitive and derived morphological features that is different from the combination of features found in other species in the genus Homo (including Homo floresiensis and Homo sapiens) and warrants their attribution to a new species, which we name Homo luzonensis. The presence of another and previously unknown hominin species east of the Wallace Line during the Late Pleistocene epoch underscores the importance of island Southeast Asia in the evolution of the genus Homo.Funding was provided by the WennerGren Foundation, the Leakey Foundation Research Grant and the University of the Philippines Enhanced Creative Work and Research Grant (ECWRG 2015-1-016). R.G.'s work was partly funded by the Australian Research Council Grant DP110101415. The research of P.J.P. was supported by Australian Research Council grants FT100100527 and DP140100384. The research of G.D. was supported by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR ARCHOR12-CULT-0006), the Omo Group Research Expedition (J.-R. Boisserie), the MEAE, the Université de Poitiers and the Conseil départemental de la Vienne (ACI 2013-2014). The research of J.C. was supported by SYNTHESYS (NLTAF-1130) and ‘IUSS Ferrara 1391’ grants. Aspects of the research of F.D. were supported by the Labex BCDiv ‘Biological and Cultural Diversities’, Erasmus Mundus IMQP and IDQP, MQPI (MEAE) and PaléoFED.application/pdfen-AUArchaeologyBiological anthropologyPalaeontology2019-04-1010.1038/s41586-019-1067-92019-05-19