New Crania from China Suggest Human Evolution Probably of Regional Continuity  

出　　处：《Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences》2017年第1期59-60,共2页中国科学院院刊（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)

摘　　要：The period between about 200,000 and 50,000 years ago saw the amplification of regional diversity in human biology. Due to the fragmentary status of that human fossil record, however, the nature of these late Middle and early Late Pleistocene humans in the more northern portions of eastern Eurasia has been unclear. New crania described in a study published on March 3 in Science might hint to some episodes of human evolution in this period. The two crania, as reported by paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology （IVPP）, Chinese Academy of Sciences （CAS） and their collaborators, were discovered and unearthed from the early Late Pleistocene （-105,000- to 125,000-year- old） strata of Lingjing, Xuchang, China, and exhibit a morphological mosaic with differences from and similarities to their western contemporaries. This morphological combination, they argued, might reflect Pleistocene human evolutionary patterns in general biology, and mirror both regional continuity and interregional population dynamics.Exhibiting a morphological mosaic with differences from and similarities to their western contemporaries,new crania from Xuchang,China hints to the amplification of regional diversity in human biology between about 200,000 and 50,000 years ago.

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