A replica Homo erectus skull reconstructed from some of the Zhoukoudian fossils.
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· 07/23/2009 9:11:55 PM PDT · · Posted by Ethan Clive Osgoode · · 39 replies · · 616+ views · · National Geographic · · March 12, 2009 · · Brian Handwerk · |
Peking man -- the group of early humans whose 1920s discovery gave a big boost to the theory of evolution -- lived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously believed, a new study says. The new dates would also place Peking man in a more hospitable, cooler time period in China's Zhoukoudian region, which today is the world's foremost source of Homo erectus fossils. Ciochon hypothesizes that a prolonged mass migration of Homo erectus from Africa, which began about two million years ago, eventually came to something like a fork in the road. Reaching southern China, the early humans would have come upon... |
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