Archaeological evidence found in Luzon, Philippines suggest that a species of human came to the island long before homo sapiens left Africa:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ancient-humans-settled-philippines-700000-years-ago-new-fossils-reveal
The evidence is the fossilised remains of a butchered rhinoceros, though no humanoid skeleton has yet been found there.
"So who were these ancient people? They couldn’t have been our own species, Homo sapiens, which evolved in Africa hundreds of thousands of years later. The most likely bet is H. erectus, an archaic human species that first evolved nearly 2 million years ago and may have been the first member of our genus to expand out of Africa. [...]
"Like most researchers, Antón isn’t convinced that ancient humans were deliberately crossing Southeast Asian seas so long ago. More likely, they were carried to distant islands by tsunami waves, or arrived there via floating islands of land and debris detached during typhoons."
The original article in Nature (£) is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0072-8
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