Homo juluensis Wu & Bae in Bae, 2024
Xujiayao hominins, Julurens
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Prior to the scientific description of Homo juluensis, the hominid remains from Xujiayao were suggested to refer to Denisovans by Hong et al. (2017). Now that H. juluensis has been scientifically described (Bae, 2024), Denisovan material has been assigned to H. juluensis by (Bae & Wu, 2024), but is yet to be widely accepted.
Conservation Status
Extinct if distinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Xing et al., 2015a,c)
Distribution
northern China
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bae, Christopher J. (2024). The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 296 pp. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824898106
Other references:
Bae, Christopher J. and Wu, Xiujie. (2024). Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability. Nature Communications 15: 9479. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53918-7
Hawks, John. (16 June, 2024). Julurens: a new cousin for Denisovans and Neanderthals (blog post). John Hawks [personal website]. Available from: https://johnhawks.net/weblog/julurens-a-new-cousin-for-denisovans/ [Accessed on 27 November 2024]
Hong, Ao et al. (2017). An updated age for the Xujiayao hominin from the Nihewan Basin, North China: Implications for Middle Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia. Journal of Human Evolution 106: 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.01.014
Kaifu, Yousuke and Athreya, Sheela. (2024). Diversity and Evolution of Archaic Eastern Asian Hominins: A Synthetic Model of the Fossil and Genetic Records. PaleoAnthropology.
Pingfu, Chen. (2016). New Finds in China Suggesting Different Story of Human Evolutionary History. BCAS 30(3): 156-160.
Wu, Xiu Jie. (2024). Research progress on human fossils from the Xujiayao site in late Middle Pleistocene. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 43(1): 5. https://doi.org/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2023.0044
Wu, Xiu Jie and Bae, Christopher J. (2024). Xujiayao Homo: A new form of large brained hominin in eastern Asia. PaleoAnthropology.
Wu, Xiu Jie, Bae, Christopher J., Friess, M., Xing, S., Athreya, S. and Liu, W. (2022). Evolution of cranial capacity revisited: A view from the late Middle Pleistocene cranium from Xujiayao, China. Journal of Human Evolution163: 103119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103119
Xing, Song et al. (2015a). Hominin teeth from the early Late Pleistocene site of Xujiayao, Northern China. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156(2): 224-240. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22641
Xing, Song et al. (2015b). Perikymata distribution in Homo with special reference to the Xujiayao juvenile. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 157(4): 684-693. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22760
Xing, Song et al. (2015c). Micro-CT Imaging and Analysis of Enamel Defects on the Early Late Pleistocene Xujiayao Juvenile. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26(6): 935-946. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2504
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