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The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China
15 October 2015
New discovery has put some teeth into our understanding of human evolution.
Credit: S. Xing and X-J. Wu
Congratulations to Dr María Martinón-Torres whose paper has just been published in the journal Nature.
Maria says "We have discovered 47 human teeth in China that are between 80,000 and 120,000 years old, suggesting it took early humans at least twice as long to enter Europe than they did to expand throughout Asia. The result, published in the journal Nature, challenges our current understanding of how humans evolved and spread - especially how we ended up replacing the Neanderthals."