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The Largest Late Middle Pleistocene Brain

Xujiayao hominid has the biggest known brain of the time

Jan 17, 2022
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A new paper in the Journal of Human Evolution takes a closer look at the Xujiayao hominin1. The Xujiayao remains were excavated in the ‘70’s and four years ago the date of these remains were updated to be about 200,000 to 160,000 years old2. The Xujiayao fossils are characterized by a mix of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens features. Ultimately, the fossils …

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