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Oase1, a modern human mandible discovered in a cave in Romania in 2002, has a corrected carbon 14 direct dating date of about 37,000-42,000 years ago. It is the earliest early modern mandible in Europe with direct dating···
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The new specimen is named Pterygornis dapingfangensis, which is a relatively advanced enantiornithine. An external sternal manubrium develops on the front edge of the sternum. In living birds, the external sternal manubr···
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"Filtering" is a common method of feeding in the animal kingdom, and it is also a way in which natural selection acts on the evolution of life. The latest issue of "Science" and its subsidiary journal "Science Advance" a···
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On September 25, the British "Nature" magazine website published a paleoecological restoration picture on the homepage headline, and reported a report on ancient vertebrae from the Chinese Academy of Sciences under the t···
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The bony fishes are the most prosperous group among living vertebrates and are divided into ray-finned fishes and lobe-finned fishes. According to the classification ideas of modern cladistics, the subclass Sarcopterygii···
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The Zhanghetherium fossil, which dates back about 120 million years ago, is the world's first entheodont fossil with a relatively complete skeleton and the first mammal fossil discovered in the Jehol Biota. The morpholog···
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The primitive Jeholornis, which dates back to about 120 million years ago, is the most primitive bird discovered so far in my country. Its primitiveness is second only to the Archaeopteryx discovered in Germany, and it r···
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Confuciusornis, which dates back about 125 million years ago, is one of the earliest birds known to have a horny beak in the world. It also retains a complete double-arch skull structure unique to its reptilian ancestors···
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The 3.7 million-year-old woolly rhinoceros discovered in the high-altitude Zanda Basin in the Ali region of Tibet, my country, is the most primitive woolly rhinoceros discovered so far. The discovery and study of the fos···
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Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new genus of marine reptiles about 244 million years ago, the long-tailed Red River Dragon. It was discovered in the early Middle Triassic marine strata of Luxi County···
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Different eras require animals to have different survival abilities. If you lived in ancient times, huge size and ferocious habits once became the most important characteristics of animals. Currently, 593 species of bird···
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作为能人的后代，在距今大约２００万年前的非洲，直立人出现在人类进化的历史舞台上。直立人直立人的脑子已经明显增大，早期成员的脑量就已经达到８００毫升左右，晚期成员则上升为１２００毫升左右。而且，脑子不仅仅是体积增大了，它的···
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Our current human beings are members of the genus Homo. They evolved from Homo habilis through Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens. Why did only early members of the genus Homo develop into modern humans while the variou···
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Among the relics of the Peking people discovered in Zhoukoudian, there are not only a large number of stone tools, but also many tools made of animal bones or horns - bone tools. A more important discovery is the evidenc···
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Although Anderson noticed as early as 1921 that there were some white bladed vein quartz fragments at the site where the Peking Man fossils were later unearthed (later known as the "First Site"), although, since 1927, th···
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In the early 20th century, some Western scholars, based on the evolution of mammals and changes in the natural environment since the Tertiary Period, inferred that Central Asia (including northwest China and Mongolia), t···
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The discovery of ancient human fossils in Zhoukoudian made Bu Dasheng, who was deeply involved in the "Central Asian Fever", extremely excited. He decided to include the excavation and research of Zhoukoudian as a "relat···
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The origin of the hominid family represented by Ardipithecus and Australopithecus was an evolutionary leap, marking the differentiation of the human family from other groups of higher primates. The next leap was a leap w···
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We already know that the oldest groups of members of the family Hominidae known so far are basically found in the east of the African continent. But the story doesn't end there. Early human footprints In 1976, a research···
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While Dart and Bloom continued to discover Australopithecus in South Africa, the famous British paleoanthropologists Leakey and his wife (Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) were also working hard in East Africa. On July 17, 1···
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In China, there have been legends and myths about "dragon" for a long time. The Chinese have known for a long time that there are often hard, stone-like animal bones and teeth buried underground. These bones and teeth ca···
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Influenced by the idea of evolution, especially by the German Darwinist Haeckel, the young Dutch doctor Dubois firmly believed that humans would be found in Indonesia (referred to as Indonesia, which was a Dutch colony a···
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Humanity's understanding of its own development history began with modern Homo sapiens, then early Homo sapiens, and then Homo erectus, and finally determined the status of Homo habilis and Australopithecus ape as human ···
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Ancient humans were very interested in their own origins and compiled a variety of myths and legends. For example, in China, thousands of years ago, our ancestors had stories about Pangu creating the world and Nuwa creat···
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