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Nature 458, 123 (12 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/7235123a; Published online 11 March 2009

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Isotopes in quartz reveal the age of China's Peking Man.

The excavation of numerous 'Peking Man' fossils in the 1920s and 30s at Zhoukoudian, the site of a collapsed cave near Bejing, laid to rest disputes about whether previously discovered Homo erectus fossils were primitive humans or deformed apes. But the question of Peking Man's precise age has remained a puzzle.

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