Scientists Discover Evidence of New Group of Large-Headed Humans [View all]

By Luis Mendoza
December 3, 2024

A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications suggests the existence of an entirely new group of large-headed humans that lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.

The study, put forward by Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the University of Hawai’i, says these extinct humans had much larger brains than us, and any of the human species at the time.

Scientists had historically attributed Juluren fossils to the Denisovans, an ancient group of humans closely related to the Neanderthals. Some even mated with some modern humans in parts of Asia. Wu and Bae have proposed an alternate theory. They say that some of the fossils found in China do not match that of modern or prehistoric humans.

The pair have suggested that large-headed humans may have existed through mixed ancestry
In their study, Wu and Bae concluded that the fossils represented a previously undiscovered group of large-headed humans. A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications suggests the existence of an entirely new group of large-headed humans that lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.

The study, put forward by Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the University of Hawai’i, says these extinct humans had much larger brains than us, and any of the human species at the time.

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