New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?

[Judi Lynn]

By Kristina Killgrove published 2 days ago

Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people?



image showing various Asian hominin skulls, a map of central Asia, and a timeline of hominins
A diagram shows hominin sites in central Asia along with the fossils discovered there. (Image credit: C. Bae and X. Wu)


Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based partly on a very large skull found in China.

But what is this new species, and how does it help paleoanthropologists understand hominin variation in the Middle Pleistocene epoch about 300,000 to 50,000 years ago?

After our H. sapiens ancestors evolved roughly 300,000 years ago, they quickly spread out of Africa and into Europe and Asia. For decades, paleoanthropologists have tried to figure out how hominins were evolving prior to the arrival of modern humans, particularly between about 700,000 and 300,000 years ago, when multiple other early humans existed. For instance, anthropologists have found fossils from species like H. heidelbergensis in western Europe and Homo longi in central China, though not everyone agreed each of these represented a separate species. These fossils have also been lumped into catch-all terms like "archaic H. sapiens" and "Middle Pleistocene Homo," and are sometimes informally called "the muddle in the Middle."

Writing about the fossil hominin evidence from China in the journal The Innovation in 2023, Christopher Bae, an anthropologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Xiujie Wu, a paleoanthropologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and colleagues wrote that continuing to use these catch-all terms has hindered attempts to fully understand the evolutionary relationships among our ancestors.

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[Traildogbob]

1. Have they seen Matt Gaetz?

Homo juluensis still exists.

[House of Roberts]

2. Different genus.

His is homo televangelist.

[Traildogbob]

3. Homo IS the genus.

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televangelist is the species of genus and species Latin name in binomial nomenclature.
Specific epithet is the second term (species) in that scientific classification of naming.
But you are right, he is the exact image of a TV Jesus con.
Pharisee Fleecers.

[House of Roberts]

4. Thanks for the correction.

I am a machinist. Managed to pass one year of Biology in high school to graduate, over 50 years ago.

[Traildogbob]

5. I taught

Wildlife Management and Forest ecology.
College Students had to learn over 100 tree and plant names and as many Animalia, Protists and Monerans plus a few Fungi from all five Kingdoms.
Sounds all fancy that I know all those but guess what, a machinists makes hella lot more money than any faculty around here.
My Best friend graduated Forest Ecology and Management with me. He then took the Machinists curriculum and I went to teach. Guess who has 4 times my income and can use HIS skills and basement full of machines to make a living when the new regimes ends our SS and State Retirement?
Not the one that knows all those Latin names.
And you nailed the TV Jesus comparison. He could run a digital billboard on that FiveHead of his and sell Jesus Goods.

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[meow2u3]

6. Here's how I describe Pharisee Fleecers

Homo Pharisae Conartista

[Traildogbob]

7. Excellent.

I would probably be arrested and imprisoned by the new regime for teaching a foreign language, they would call Satanic. And no more damn evolution. Ya know how hard it is to imagine as a wildlife science professional, how two of every animal, that would need to include insects and every organism not just in Kingdom Animalia, but a pair of each plant, fungus, protists and moneran. (Some of the aquatic species would be fine)
And some of those organism have a sole purpose against others, KILL them. We want even mention fecal matter and food source for or from them all.
I had a co faculty member with a Masters degree in Wildlife, that fully believed that the Arch tell was accurate. And he left to go teach at his College of Degree. I will keep that to myself, but they have a rep of Faculty Jesus folks with science degrees.

[dhol82]

8. Sorry for my lack of knowledge but

What is an Arch tell?

[Traildogbob]

9. Sorry

The story of the boat, the Flood, and Noah. And every species on the planet was on it. They do not believe evolution. My former Wildlife co worker says it proudly, every species here today was on the boat.
And he is an extremely smart guy. We mostly just battled over Bush and repubs. I retired to n 2012. He went back to the college he got his degree from.
I have always wondered his thoughts on trump and fake ass Christian’s now.

[dhol82]

11. But what does the Arch refer to?

[Traildogbob]

12. Noah's Yacht.

I spelled it wrong, or my phone did. I’m blaming the phone for sure. Arc!!!!!

[dhol82]

13. Thank you

Now it makes sense.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

10. Actually, I think he may be

Eoanthropus dawsoni. Just sayin'.