Based on the study of two Early Pleistocene human skulls found in Yunxian County,Hubei Province,China,Ji et al.(2024)suggested that Homo orientalis was the common ancestor of the sapiens lineage and the longi lineage,...Based on the study of two Early Pleistocene human skulls found in Yunxian County,Hubei Province,China,Ji et al.(2024)suggested that Homo orientalis was the common ancestor of the sapiens lineage and the longi lineage,and proposed that both the two lineages originated from East Asia.We further proposed that Genus Homo should be divided into two subgenera:Subgenus Homo and Subgenus Parahomo.All members of the sapiens lineage would be assigned to Subgenus Homo,and all members of the longi lineage would be grouped into Subgenus Parahomo.Homo(Parahomo)heidelbergensis and Homo(Parahomo)neanderthalensis also were the members of the longi lineage,an evolutionary branch spreaded from East Asia to Africa and Europe more than 600,000 years ago.This paper mainly makes an introduction to the speciation,classification and phylogeny of the longi lineage.The longi lineage and the sapiens lineage are″sister group″relationship,but the longi lineage is an extinct lineage,having nothing to do with our modern people.展开更多
文摘Based on the study of two Early Pleistocene human skulls found in Yunxian County,Hubei Province,China,Ji et al.(2024)suggested that Homo orientalis was the common ancestor of the sapiens lineage and the longi lineage,and proposed that both the two lineages originated from East Asia.We further proposed that Genus Homo should be divided into two subgenera:Subgenus Homo and Subgenus Parahomo.All members of the sapiens lineage would be assigned to Subgenus Homo,and all members of the longi lineage would be grouped into Subgenus Parahomo.Homo(Parahomo)heidelbergensis and Homo(Parahomo)neanderthalensis also were the members of the longi lineage,an evolutionary branch spreaded from East Asia to Africa and Europe more than 600,000 years ago.This paper mainly makes an introduction to the speciation,classification and phylogeny of the longi lineage.The longi lineage and the sapiens lineage are″sister group″relationship,but the longi lineage is an extinct lineage,having nothing to do with our modern people.
