Paleoanthropology

You know, if you find, uh, you know, these same proteins in the Xujiayao fossils, it raises a question that does this mean that we should automatically assign everything to Denisovans, or whether we should assign them all to Homo longi, or whether they should be all assigned to Homo juluensis, right? You know, we, uh, my colleagues and I published a paper a couple years ago in The Innovation, and we had a meeting of the minds in, um, in Beijing.

We, we, we met in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, Paleoanthropology, and we talked about the Chinese fossils in particular, right? And that was the focus of the meeting.

So it was myself and, and four other, um, Chinese paleoanthropologists.

She- uh, Nishi Jun, who's the, uh, the architect of, uh, of Homo longi, and then Wu Xu Jie, who's the architect of Homo juluensis, uh, were there.

As we know, this week we are talking about Homo erectus, the next major human evolutionary milestone.

Eugène Dubois To begin the story of Homer Erectus, I would like to introduce you to one of my favourite characters in the story of Paleoanthropology, Mr Eugène Dubois.

Eugène Dubois was born in a village called Eysden in the Duchy of Limburg in the Netherlands in the year 1858.

From a young age, Dubois was fascinated by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.