Ancient People on the Loess Plateau Carried Southern Genes: Ancient DNA Pushes Known North–South Interaction 800 km Northward
2025年9月23日
First Large-Scale Ancient Nuclear Genome Dataset of East Asian Domestic Pigs Released by Peking University
2025年9月29日Million-Year-Old Yunxian Cranium Reconstructed as Early Homo longi, Pushing Back the Origin of Our Lineage
A team led by Ni Xijun (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, and Fudan University) has digitally reconstructed the roughly one-million-year-old Yunxian cranium No. 2 using CT scanning, reporting the result in Science.
Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses place the cranium among early members of the Asian Homo longi lineage, which is thought to include the Denisovans—reassigning a fossil long classified as Homo erectus into the longi–Denisovan branch.
The analysis also pushes back the divergence among modern humans, Neanderthals, and this Asian branch substantially, suggesting the lineage leading to our own species may have split more than a million years ago. If borne out, the finding significantly rewrites the timeline of human evolution in East Asia and beyond.
