Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China
2017; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 355; Issue: 6328 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.aal2482
ISSN1095-9203
AutoresZhanyang Li, Xiujie Wu, Liping Zhou, Wu Liu, Xing Gao, Xiaomei Nian, Erik Trinkaus,
Tópico(s)Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
ResumoMorphological mosaics in early Asian humans Excavations in eastern Asia are yielding information on human evolution and migration. Li et al. analyzed two fossil human skulls from central China, dated to 100,000 to 130,000 years ago. The crania elucidate the pattern of human morphological evolution in eastern Eurasia. Some features are ancestral and similar to those of earlier eastern Eurasian humans, some are derived and shared with contemporaneous or later humans elsewhere, and some are closer to those of Neandertals. The analysis illuminates shared long-term trends in human adaptive biology and suggests the existence of interconnections between populations across Eurasia during the later Pleistocene. Science , this issue p. 969
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