The earliest modern human fossils found in China

• 来源期刊: 中国科学基金（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（1）
• 页码范围: 23
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the research team led by Profs.Liu Wu(刘武)and Wu XiuJie(吴秀杰)at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,and Prof.Cai YanJun(蔡演军)at the Institute of Earth Environment both under Chinese Academy of Sciences reported their discovery of 47 human teeth with fully modern morphologies from a cave in southern China,showing that modern humans were in the region at least 80,000 years ago,and possibly as long as 120,000 years ago.The teeth were regarded as new evidence for the earliest modern humans entering East Asia.Their research paper was published in Nature (2015,526:696-699).