Homo juluensis Bae, 2024
Xujiayao hominid
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Might refer to Denisovans (Hong et al., 2017). Now scientifically described as Homo juluensis (Bae, 2024). Denisovan material has been assigned to H. juluensis by (Bae & Wu, 2024), but is yet to be accepted.
Conservation Status
Extinct if valid
Last record: Late Pleistocene
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
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. [Abstract]
Pingfu, Chen. (2016). New Finds in China Suggesting Different Story of Human Evolutionary History. BCAS 30(3): 156-160.
Wu, X. J. and Bae, Christopher J. (in press). Xujiayao Homo: A new form of large brained hominin in eastern Asia. Paleoanthropology.
Wu, Xiu-Jie et al. (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. (2014). Hominin teeth from the early Late Pleistocene site of Xujiayao, Northern China. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156(2): 224-240. [Abstract]
Xing, Song et al. (2015a). Micro-CT Imaging and Analysis of Enamel Defects on the Early Late Pleistocene Xujiayao Juvenile. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI:10.1002/oa.2504 [Abstract]
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. [Abstract]
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