Scientists Just Discovered ANOTHER New Human Species!

In China, which is around the same size as the whole of Europe, there are many different human fossils but there is not a universal classification for these fossils.   While fossils from Europe that date to between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago are classified as Neanderthals, even though they have a high degree of variability, Chinese fossils from this time period are not categorized as a single species.  Until now.

A team of researchers has named a new human species that lived around 100,000 to 300,000 years ago in China. The species, known as Homo juluensis, sheds new light on the complexities of human evolution. The scientific name of the species translates to “Big-headed Human”.

Until very recently, all hominin fossils discovered in China that did not match Homo erectus or Homo sapiens were lumped together. Compared to hominin fossils from Africa and Europe, the human fossil record in eastern Asia is poorly differentiated and described. Although Homo juluensis is not widely accepted, the name is gaining popularity among experts.

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[HighlyCompelling]

Do you think Homo juluensis is a good species and agree with placing Denisovans in this species?

[TheTamriel]

The _Julurens_ (‘big heads’) consist of the fossils of Xujiayao and Xuchang in China and are dated to 220 – 100 kya. They lack the ‘unibrow’ of _H. erectus_ and their cranial volume varies between 1, 700 and 1, 800 cc. They form a morphological clade with the fossils of Denisova in Siberia, Xiahe in Tibet and Penghu Island and are to be distinguished from the clade of the _Dragon People_ – Hualongdong, Dali, Jinniushan and Harbin. From the _Julurens_ and the huge mandible from Xiahe we can extrapolate that the enigmatic _Denisovans_ were likewise equipped with a big head.

[jdlaurie]

What if we are all just regional variants of Homo erectus that have occasionally mixed in our past and over time have out-competed the more ancestral H erectus types?

[lindamcgregor]

in South Africa alone, 50 years ago, one could visibly tell from what part of the country a black person came. (Whites all looked similar). Today no more as people have moved around the country and mixed. BUT black South Africans still can tell by looking if one is from another part of Africa. 🇿🇦

[JohnDarwin]

The more of the pieces of the puzzle we have the better knowledge we can share.

[marvinegreen]

Subjected to human random predilections over about 6000 years, wolf stock have become as diverse as Pekingese to English Mastiff while Wolves, Sharks and Dragon Flies, (given consistency of pressures), have changed little. When Sapience stock moved from one area to another, the differences in survival pressures would have manifested changes rapidly, then settled into a new equilibrium with consolidative small changes over longer periods. A few thousand years after humans arrive in an area should be 66% of the changes leading to a new species designation while later arrival interbreeding might contribute the remaining 33% of changes and be manifested over longer periods.

[colinleat]

I just randomly stumbled across your channel. I've emedietly subscribed. I've been fascinated with the evolution of our species and that of our closest cousin's for most of my life. It's been a privilege to see our understanding of the complexity of our history grow and become more complete. I look forward to exploring the rest of your video's. 👍🇨🇦🖖🙂

[comfortablynumb]

It sounds to me like the old traditional stories about giants might have been Denisovans or this other new species. But I wonder if all the big headed ones are all one species, like Denisovan.

[deandeann]

I wonder why they went extinct. Likely they were smarter than us in some ways at least, yet they are gone.

[space-guy-]

Une pièce de plus au puzzle de l'humanité, mais il en reste encore beaucoup à decouvrir pour expliquer nos origines.

[Herbit-kj]

I find the theory that some elongated skulls are natural quite compelling. You could imagine that if two species with different genetic variants that increase cranial size hybridize, that they amplify and increase cranial size even further.

Since you need to have multiple genes to have the phenotype, it might be rare to actually show up. That is unless you practice selective breeding, like royals did.

Something like this happens with some variants of dwarfism in humans. When achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia are both combined, it results in even more severe dwarfism.

[johndavis]

Fascinating report. As to lumping Denisovans into this group or Neanderthals I think DNA will tell the story. I think this goes for the Erectus-Heidelbergensis too. From my take Heidelbergrnsis appears to be large Erectus with some measuring between 7 and 9 feet tall. But how do they all compare genetically and how much of the “ junk DNA” we carry is actually holdovers from these other hominids,

[LuisAldamiz]

IDK but I don't trust Stringer's judgement: he used to defend weird meaningless ideas about "modern human behavior" and worse: date them to meaningless (and not really archaeologically supported) dates, all of which was embedded in lots of Eurocentrism.

The big cranial size of these specimens is anyhow very intriguing, although I'm not sure where do you get the 1800 cc that appear in one of your slides, while then telling that their brains are within modern/Neanderthal capacity (which is at most 1450 cc, often even smaller in modern humans, probably "thanks" to horrible Neolithic diet).

As for the phylogeny, archaeogenetics has the last say.

[Demion]

They are just calling denisovans Juluensis, which is lame, I will be sticking with denisovan

[SyIe]

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[axl]

The Chinese just want to have their naming.

[Imnotabot]

“Ironically, people are accustomed thinking that in the future humans will evolve into acquiring big brain or head".

[phlogistonphlyte]

What is the definition of a species? Can one species normally mate with another, and if so, do what degree are they considered to be hybrids, or able to replicate? If, having mated with other humanoid species, we contain their DNA, are we we not hybrids or mixed DNA resultants of previous cross-breeding?

[Elvin]

That is what I thought also, the only way to explain the current different human races over the world in such a short period of time, is due to the result of the homo sapiens mixing with the homo species already habiting the area, a mix which is more dominant that is actually thought and leading to the different human "races" over the world that we have, which should be called more correctly "different species".

[ggb]

Richtig gut 👍 ich habe immer gesagt das wir uns vermischt haben 😊 Genugtuung tut gut 😂