Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution ... Tokyo said the site fills a critical gap in fossil evidence from the transitional period between Homo ...
They date back to around 300,000 years ago – a period between archaic Homo erectus and modern Homo sapiens for which limited fossil evidence ... in East Asia in their evolution process towards ...
7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took ... which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about ...
"It is between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens -- a period for which fossil evidence is scarce. Additional finds like these are invaluable," said Yosuke Kaifu, a professor at the University of Tokyo.