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A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.
The brains of these extinct humans, who probably hunted horses in small groups, were much bigger than any other hominin of their time, including our own species.
Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the University of Hawai'i have called this new group the Juluren, meaning "large head people".
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'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges
Hina shahDecember 03, 2024A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.
The brains of these extinct humans, who probably hunted horses in small groups, were much bigger than any other hominin of their time, including our own species.
Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the University of Hawai'i have called this new group the Juluren, meaning "large head people".
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'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges
'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges
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