Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China

@article{Li2017LatePA,
  title={Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China},
  author={Zhan-yang Li and Xiujie Wu and Liping Zhou and Wu Liu and Xing Gao and Xiaomei Nian and Erik Trinkaus},
  journal={Science},
  year={2017},
  volume={355},
  pages={969 - 972}
}
Morphological mosaics in early Asian humans Excavations in eastern Asia are yielding information on human evolution and migration. Li et al. analyzed two fossil human skulls from central China, dated to 100,000 to 130,000 years ago. The crania elucidate the pattern of human morphological evolution in eastern Eurasia. Some features are ancestral and similar to those of earlier eastern Eurasian humans, some are derived and shared with contemporaneous or later humans elsewhere, and some are closer… 
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