"People with a big head": discovered a new type of ancient man

Previously, some scientists attributed the Homo juluensis fossils to Denisovans, who are a group of ancient people related to Neanderthals who once lived alongside modern humans and even mated with them in parts of Asia.

However, scientists took a closer look at the fossils found in China and said that the features of some of them cannot simply be attributed to the species of modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans or Homo erectus, hominids.

Taken together, these fossils represent a new form of hominin with a large brain

Over the past two decades, the human family tree has changed a lot and it is quite difficult to distinguish and name all its branches, due to the fact that every few years new ones appear that are intertwined with other branches of life.

For example, in 2003, scientists discovered Homo floresiensis, the smallest known human species that lived at least 100,000 years ago on an island in Indonesia.

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In 2007, archaeologists discovered Homo luzonensis, a completely new hominid species 67,000 years ago, in the Philippines.

In 2018, paleoanthropologists obtained a fossil from northeastern China that turned out to be an extinct archaic human species, possibly related to Denisovans.

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Only in 2021, scientists officially designated the species Homo longi.Various fossils belonging to H. juluensis, have classic Neanderthal tooth characteristics. But some traits are not seen in other known hominids, including Denisovans.

In 2023, for example, scientists found a hominin fossil in China that was unlike any other known human fossil. Xiujie Wu and Christopher Bae say this is a good example of "the complexity of human evolutionary records.

In any case, the East Asian Chronicles encourage us to recognize how complex human evolution is more generally, and indeed force us to reconsider and rethink our interpretations of various evolutionary models

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