Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability

2024/11/02 by Christopher J. Bae, Xiujie Wu · 3 voices · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53918-7

Abstract

A greater degree of Late Quaternary hominin morphological variability is present in eastern Asia than previously assumed. Indeed, a number of distinct populations are present, some that now have new specific names: Homo floresiensis; H. luzonensis; H. longi; H. juluensis. With this piece, we describe the various groupings based on the current hominin fossil record of eastern Asia.

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Discussions

• A provocative commentary on the diversity of hominin fossils of eastern Eurasia, attributing material now called Denisovans to Homo juluensis. doi.org/10.1038/s414... [bsky, 6 points, 1 comments]
• 📢Descubrimientos de fósiles en Asia oriental han revelado una diversidad de humanos antiguos, como Homo juluensis, sugiriendo que varios grupos de homínidos coexistieron e intercambiaron genes entre [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
• Bae & Wu: Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability (Nat Comm) doi.org/10.1038/s414... Details previously unrecognized morphological diversity among Late Quaternary (~300-50 ka [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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