Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought

An international team of researchers based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, 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.

Asian Neanderthals, Humans Mated
NeanderthalA newly found fossil of a human in Asia some 100,000 years ago reveals distinct Neanderthal features.  

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