The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

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 Bermúdez de Castro and Xiu-jie Wu ()
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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
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)
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
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

Nature, 2015, vol. 526, issue 7575, 696-699

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.

Date: 2015
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