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作者: choi    时间: 3-3-2017 12:42
标题: 许昌人
本帖最后由 choi 于 3-4-2017 11:04 编辑

Li Z-Y et al, Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China. Science, 355: 969-972 (Mar 3, 2017).
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6328/969
(abstract: "Two early Late Pleistocene (~105,000- to 125,000-year-old) crania from Lingjing, Xuchang, China, exhibit a morphological mosaic with differences from and similarities to their western contemporaries" (ie, Neanderthals) )

Note:
(a) 河南省许昌市许昌县 灵井镇 (许昌县 was renamed 建安区 on Feb 5, 2017 (a month ago, that is) )
(b) "许昌人"
(c) The lead author is professor Zhan-Yang Li (as spelled in the Science article) -- or LI Zhanyang (as spelled in PRC): 李占扬, 许昌人发现者 and 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所聘为客座研究员 (since November 2016: perhaps after Science had accepted the article for publication)
(d) This study is based on "morphological" comparisons of crania only. No DNA is extracted from 许昌人 yet (though DNA has been extracted and sequenced from Neanderthals and Denisovans (the latter in Siberia).
(e) cranium (medieval Latin from Greek kranion skull)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cranium

许昌人's crania, which is plural form of "cranium" in LATIN. So called, because the two 许昌人 bones does not have facial part, "facial" being the adjective form of "face."  (I would translate cranium as 头盖骨.) A skull most likely contain facial bones.





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