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The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

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  • Wu Liu

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • María Martinón-Torres

    (UCL Anthropology
    s/n.
    Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH))

  • Yan-jun Cai

    (State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Song Xing

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Hao-wen Tong

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Shu-wen Pei

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Mark Jan Sier

    (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
    Paleomagnetic Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
    Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University)

  • Xiao-hong Wu

    (School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University)

  • R. Lawrence Edwards

    (University of Minnesota)

  • Hai Cheng

    (Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University)

  • Yi-yuan Li

    (Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Hunan Province)

  • Xiong-xin Yang

    (Cultural Relics Administration of Daoxian County)

  • José María Bermúdez de Castro

    (UCL Anthropology
    Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH))

  • Xiu-jie Wu

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

A collection of 47 unequivocally modern human teeth from a cave in southern China shows that modern humans were in the region at least 80,000 years ago, and possibly as long as 120,000 years ago, which is twice as long as the earliest known modern humans in Europe; the population exhibited more derived features than contemporaneous hominins in northern and central China, adding to the complexity of the human story.

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  • Wu Liu & María Martinón-Torres & Yan-jun Cai & Song Xing & Hao-wen Tong & Shu-wen Pei & Mark Jan Sier & Xiao-hong Wu & R. Lawrence Edwards & Hai Cheng & Yi-yuan Li & Xiong-xin Yang & José María Bermúd, 2015. "The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China," Nature, Nature, vol. 526(7575), pages 696-699, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:526:y:2015:i:7575:d:10.1038_nature15696
    DOI: 10.1038/nature15696
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