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Early Homo sapiens in China

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The timing of the dispersal of our species from Africa is a continuing and lively topic of debate. Evidence that modern humans existed in China more than 100,000 years ago is both equivocal and thought-provoking.

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Figure 1: Two interpretations of the Zhirendong mandible described by Liu and colleagues1.

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  1. Robin Dennell is in the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4ET, UK. r.dennell@sheffield.ac.uk,

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Dennell, R. Early Homo sapiens in China. Nature 468, 512–513 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468512a

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