Tag: Out of Africa
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Among Fossils and Philosophy: What a One-Million-Year-Old Asian Skull Does to Our Theories
Introduction: Why Yunxian 2 Matters The digital reconstruction of Yunxian 2, a one-million-year-old Asian skull discovered in Hubei and dated between 940,000 and 1.1 million years ago, has become more than an archaeological curiosity. In Nature, an international team led by paleontologists María Martinón-Torres and Wu Xiujie presents a pipeline that transforms a fractured fossil…
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Yunxian 2 Skull and the Rewriting of Human Origins in Asia
Reconstructing a fossil as a new scientific reference The Yunxian 2 skull, unearthed in Hubei and dated to roughly 940,000–1.1 million years ago, has become a case study in how modern methods transform archaeology into a testable science. In a Nature publication by María Martinón-Torres, Wu Xiujie, José María Bermúdez de Castro, and colleagues, the…
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Among Fossils and Philosophy: Yunxian 2 Skull and the Rewriting of Human Origins
Yunxian 2 and the Digital Resurrection of an Ancient Face The Yunxian 2 skull, unearthed in Hubei province and dated to roughly 940,000 to 1.1 million years ago, stands as more than a fragment of bone: it is a proving ground for a new epistemology in paleoanthropology. In a Nature article by María Martinón-Torres, Wu…