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Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils
from China Suggest
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025172924.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2010) — An international team of researchers,
including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University
in St. Louis, has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern
China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the
emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World.
The research, based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology in Beijing, was published Oct. 25 in the online
early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The discovery of early modern human fossil remains in the Zhirendong
(Zhiren Cave) in south China that are at least 100,000 years old
provides the earliest evidence for the emergence of modern humans in
eastern Asia, at least 60,000 years older than the previously known
modern humans in the region.
"These fossils are helping to redefine our perceptions of modern human
emergence in eastern Eurasia, and across the Old World more
generally," says Eric Trinkaus, PhD, the Mary Tileston Hemenway
Professor in Arts & Sciences and professor of physical anthropology.
The Zhirendong fossils have a mixture of modern and archaic features
that contrasts with earlier modern humans in east Africa and southwest
Asia, indicating some degree of human population continuity in Asia
with the emergence of modern humans.
The Zhirendong humans indicate that the spread of modern human biology
long preceded the cultural and technological innovations of the Upper
Paleolithic and that early modern humans co-existed for many tens of
millennia with late archaic humans further north and west across
Eurasia.
The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by
ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by Washington University
in St. Louis.
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Journal Reference:
Wu Liu, Chang-Zhu Jin, Ying-Qi Zhang, Yan-Jun Cai, Song Xing, Xiu-Jie
Wu, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Wen-Shi Pan, Da-Gong Qin,
Zhi-Sheng An, Erik Trinkaus, Xin-Zhi Wu. Human remains from
Zhirendong, South China, and modern human emergence in East Asia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010; DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1014386107
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On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
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