Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 08:41
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An international team of researchers based at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World...