Researchers say they have discovered new insights into a long-lost human species known for its particularly heavy skull. recent research.
Jurenians, or “big-headed” people, are distorting scientists' long-accepted understanding of human evolution.
How humans came to be is a linear process, starting with ape-like ancestors like Lucy, evolving into many variations over time, and ending with humans walking the earth today. It is mainly understood that
However, the researchers behind this study, paleoanthropologists Christopher Bay and Xujie Wu, Homo juruensis Based on East Asian fossils from the late Quaternary period.
According to research, the Juren people lived about 300,000 years ago and lived in small groups across East Asia until disappearing about 50,000 years ago.
Bae and Wu, who are from Hawaii and China, respectively, discovered that East Asia was simultaneously home to many other different human species. This suggests that networks of different human-like populations not only coexisted, but also interacted and even intermingled over time.
They identified four human species that existed during this time. homo floresiensisa very small “hobbit” human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. Homo luzonensis From the Philippines. Homolonghi of china. and was recently named Homo juruensis.
Each species had different characteristics that were eventually phased out over the course of evolution. homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis Both were small and compact, but Homolonghi and Homo juruensis It had a bulbous head.
“We did not expect that we would be able to propose a new hominid (human ancestor) species and even classify Asian hominin fossils into different groups. Ultimately, this will help in scientific communication. Bey said in a release from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Researchers said the breakthrough adds much-needed clarity to East Asia's fossil record, which has been lacking compared to other discoveries in Europe and Africa.
However, this study is not complete.
Not all of the fossils used are complete, and researchers still do not fully understand the genetic relationships between species. The study suggests a breakthrough that could shatter the accepted model of human evolution, but for now it remains just a theory.
