Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage

It has recently become clear that several human lineages coexisted with Homo sapiens during the late Middle and Late Pleistocene. Here, we report an archaic human fossil that throws new light on debates concerning the diversification of the Homo genus and the origin of H. sapiens. The fossil was rec...

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Main Authors: Xijun Ni, Qiang Ji, Wensheng Wu, Qingfeng Shao, Yannan Ji, Chi Zhang, Lei Liang, Junyi Ge, Zhen Guo, Jinhua Li, Qiang Li, Rainer Grün, Chris Stringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-08-01
Series:The Innovation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675821000552