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 ...
"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.