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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
卷 127, 期 3, 页码 253-262出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20066
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Homo erectus; Nanjing; China
The morphology and affinities of early and middle Pleistocene Homo erectus in East Asia have been explored since the late nineteenth century. A fragmentary hominid cranium (Nanjing no.1) recovered in Tangshan near Nanjing, China bears directly on these issues. In the present study, the morphological features of Nanjing no. 1 are described and compared with Homo erectus from both Eurasia and Africa. Our results indicate that this middle Pleistocene hominid fossil should be referred to as Homo erectus. The sharing of typical Homo erectus features with African and European counterparts demonstrates that Homo erectus is a widely distributed lineage that evolved during the million years after its Pliocene origins. The differences between Nanjing no.1 and Zhoukoudian suggest certain level of regional variation in East Asian Homo erectus. (c) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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