The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7575, 2015, Pages 696-699

  Liu, Wu ^a   Martinón Torres, María ^b,c,d   Cai, Yan Jun ^e   Xing, Song ^a   Tong, Hao Wen ^a   Pei, Shu Wen ^a   Sier, Mark Jan ^d,f,g   Wu, Xiao Hong ^h   Edwards, R Lawrence ⁱ   Cheng, Hai ^j   Li, Yi Yuan ^k   Yang, Xiong Xin ^l   De Castro, José María Bermúdez ^b,d   Wu, Xiu Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^j XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k Hunan Provincial Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics   (China)

^l Cultural Relics Administration of Daoxian County   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAVE; CHINA; CHRONOLOGY; EUROPE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TOOTH; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; HISTORY; MIGRATION; TIME FACTOR;

CHINA; EUROPE; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

HOMO SAPIENS;

ANIMALS; CAVES; CHINA; EUROPE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 84945953770     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15696     Document Type: Article

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