The Origin of the Filipino People
There were so many theories about the real origins of the Filipino people. With so many theories from different scholars and academicians, most of these theories about the origins of the Filipino people raises more questions than answers. However, with the recent archaelogical discoveries and DNA testings being conducted by academic and government institutions both locally and internationally, it seems that the real Filipino origins now becomes clear. In 2007, Filipino archaelogist Armand Salvador B. Mijares from the University of the Philippines and his team found the bones of two adults and a child from a previously unknown human-related specie now called Homo Luzonensis and previously known as the Callao Man . In 2010, Mijares and French anthropologist Florent Detroit and their colleagues identified them as belonging to the modern humans but later on, in 2019, after the discovery of 12 new specimens and based on the apparent presence of both modern-humanlike and primitive Australo