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Ancient skull uncovered in China could be million-year-old Homo erectus

Fieldwork is under way to excavate a rare, well-preserved specimen in central China.
  1. Dyani Lewis
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Researchers are heralding the discovery of an ancient human skull in central China as an important find. As excavation of the remarkably intact fossil continues, archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists anticipate that the skull could give a fuller picture of the diverse family tree of archaic humans living throughout Eurasia in prehistoric times.

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Nature 612, 200-201 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04142-0

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