You have no doubt seen a human skull at some point and probably one belonging to our hominin cousins, neanderthals. However, another species of ancient human is said to have been discovered in east Asia, one that lived concurrently with other Homo sapiens more than 100,000 years ago.
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00:00You've no doubt seen a human skull at some point, and probably one belonging to our hominid
00:08cousins, Neanderthals.
00:10However, another species of ancient human is said to have been discovered in East Asia,
00:15one that lived concurrently with other homo sapiens more than 100,000 years ago.
00:20They have been named the Gelurian species by paleoanthropologists, a word which means
00:24large head people.
00:25These are a collection of skull fragments attributed to the recently described species.
00:30Ones researchers say cannot be attributed to humans, Neanderthals, or Denisovans.
00:34However, the experts say that the features present are somewhat of a mix of traits seen
00:39amongst other species.
00:40That's likely because multiple groups of differing hominid peoples lived in the same area, meaning
00:45this species could have been an ancestor of myriad others.
00:49With the researchers writing about it, it is becoming increasingly clear that in the
00:52Eastern Asian hominid fossils, a greater degree of morphological variation is present
00:57than originally assumed or anticipated.
01:00This is just the latest in a recent boom of discoveries related to new human species,
01:04with experts saying they are revealing just how much more complex human evolution really
01:08is.