Unknown human species found in Asia

Compared with H. erectus, these species - for example, other early Homo species such as Homo habilis, as well as the australopiths (hominins not in the genus Homo), which include Paranthropus and Australopithecus - had smaller brains and an anatomy that is less similar to that of modern humans. [......

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2019-04, Vol.568 (7751), p.176-178
1. Verfasser: Tocheri, Matthew W
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Zusammenfassung:Compared with H. erectus, these species - for example, other early Homo species such as Homo habilis, as well as the australopiths (hominins not in the genus Homo), which include Paranthropus and Australopithecus - had smaller brains and an anatomy that is less similar to that of modern humans. [...]the H. luzonensis finger and toe bones are curved, which suggests that climbing was an important part of this species' behavioural repertoire, as was also the case for many species of early hominin9. [...]it is worth considering how different these ideas might be if, in the 1890s, H. floresiensis or H. luzonensis had been discovered rather than H. erectus. Because H. luzonensis provides the first glimpse of a second hominin species living on a distant island at a time when H. sapiens populations from Africa were beginning to spread across the world, one thing can be said for certain - our picture of hominin evolution in Asia during the Pleistocene just got even messier, more complicated and a whole lot more interesting. ?
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-019-01019-7