The Largest Late Middle Pleistocene Brain

Xujiayao hominid has the biggest known brain of the time

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 …