{"id":28481,"date":"2024-12-05T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T07:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28481"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:08:47","slug":"homo-juluensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/homo-juluensis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Homo juluensis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Homo juluensis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new <strong>species of ancient humans<\/strong> with <strong>distinctively large skulls.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The species, known as \u201cbig head people,\u201d <strong>lived 300,000 years ago<\/strong> and survived in <strong>small groups across eastern Asia<\/strong> before <strong>disappearing around 50,000 years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Homo juluensis <strong>includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans<\/strong>\u2014ancient human relatives whose histories are still being uncovered.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fossils<\/strong> attributed to H. juluensis, primarily consisting of facial and jaw remains, <strong>exhibit dental characteristics reminiscent of Neanderthals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Initial measurements indicate that their <strong>braincases were up to 30% larger than those of Homo sapiens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>hunted wild horses in small groups<\/strong>, and <strong>made stone too<\/strong>ls and possibly <strong>processed animal hides for survival.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Neanderthals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They were an <strong>extinct relative of modern humans<\/strong> once <strong>found across Europe,extending into Central and Southwest Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Species: Homo neanderthalensis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>our closest extinct human relative.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Current evidence from both fossils and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/dna\/\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> suggests that Neanderthal and modern human <strong>lineages separated at least 500,000 years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>last populations<\/strong> of Neanderthals are thought to have <strong>died out roughly 40,000 years ago<\/strong>, several thousand years or so after a wave of modern humans migrated deeper into Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Although they are long extinct, <strong>their genes are still present in modern human DNA<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Who are Denisovans?<\/h3>\n<p>Denisovans are an extinct species of hominid and a close relative to modern humans. They\u2019re a recent addition to the human family tree\u2014scientists first identified Denisovan remains from a cave in Siberia in 2010. Denisovans lived across a wide range of areas and conditions, from the cold mountains of Siberia and Tibet to the jungles of Southeast Asia during the last Ice Age. DNA evidence suggests Denisovans are related to both Neanderthals and modern humans, and may have interbred with both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/new-big-headed-archaic-humans-discovered-who-is-homo-juluensis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homo juluensis is a new species of ancient humans with distinctively large skulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}