Xujiayao

And so that brings us finally to Homo longi and Homo juluensis.

These taxa represent a collection of Asian fossils that includes the Harbin cranium and the Xujiayao skeletal remains that don't exactly look like Homo erectus or modern humans.

More like something in between.

And there's a huge debate underway right now to figure out what these fossils represent.

But one interesting aspect about the morphology of the Homo juluensis remains, especially their teeth, is that they look almost identical to Denisovans.

Here's Chris to explain further.

One of the things about the, uh, the Xujiayao fossils is that there are a lot of different fossils.

And, uh, if you look at the molars of the Xujiayao molars, and you look at the Denisovan molars, they're almost exactly the same.