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Homo erectus Reached East Asia Far Earlier than Previously Thought

New dating of fossil skulls from the Early Pleistocene site of Yunxian in China suggests that early members of Homo erectus lived in eastern Asia nearly 1.77 million years ago, pushing the region’s human story back at least 670,000 years and strengthening the case for a rapid dispersal out of Africa.

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