Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation [Anthropology]

Middle to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia has remained controversial regarding the extent of morphological continuity through archaic humans and to modern humans. Newly found ∼300,000-y-old human remains from Hualongdong (HLD), China, including a largely complete skull (HLD 6), share East Asian Middle Pleistocene (MPl) human traits of...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - May 13, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Xiu-Jie Wu, Shu-Wen Pei, Yan-Jun Cai, Hao-Wen Tong, Qiang Li, Zhe Dong, Jin-Chao Sheng, Ze-Tian Jin, Dong-Dong Ma, Song Xing, Xiao-Li Li, Xing Cheng, Hai Cheng, Ignacio de la Torre, R. Lawrence Edwards, Xi-Cheng Gong, Zhi-Sheng An, Erik Trinkaus, Wu Liu Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research