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Not only does this detailed monograph on Tianyuan stand as an excellent example of high-quality description and analysis of important human fossils, it also provides, for the first time, reliably dated evidence on the initial appearance of early modern people on the East Asian mainland. Thus, this work will have a significant impact on our understanding of later human evolution in Asia for many years to come, regardless of individual views on evidence for continuity between early modern and archaic Asians. --Fred Smith, professor of anthropology and Biological Sciences Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University<br><br>

.. .a much needed and welcome addition to what is a relatively scanty record...nicely done...superd quality...wide diversity...one of the first comprehensive metric analyses of a modern human skeleton from eastern Asia that derives from solid context and age...a very nice addition to the literature...will definitely be of interest to any senior researcher or graduate student working on questions related to the evolution of modern human morphology. --;br>--Christopher J. Bae Anthropos

Not only does this detailed monograph on Tianyuan stand as an excellent example of high-quality description and analysis of important human fossils, it also provides, for the first time, reliably dated evidence on the initial appearance of early modern people on the East Asian mainland. Thus, this work will have a significant impact on our understanding of later human evolution in Asia for many years to come, regardless of individual views on evidence for continuity between early modern and archaic Asians. --Fred Smith, professor of anthropology and Biological Sciences Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University

...a much needed and welcome addition to what is a relatively scanty record...nicely done...superd quality...wide diversity...one of the first comprehensive metric analyses of a modern human skeleton from eastern Asia that derives from solid context and age...a very nice addition to the literature...will definitely be of interest to any senior researcher or graduate student working on questions related to the evolution of modern human morphology. --;/p>--Christopher J. Bae Anthropos . . . This book is a paleoanthropological landmark and destined to be for many years a key source of information to all those involved in the investigation of how humans became what they are today. -- Joao Zilhao, Professor of Paleolithic Archaeology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom The high standard of description and analysis can't be faulted, and the conclusions are presented with care and caution. --Don Brothwell, Antiquity -- (02/29/2012) Not only does this detailed monograph on Tianyuan stand as an excellent example of high-quality description and analysis of important human fossils, it also provides, for the first time, reliably dated evidence on the initial appearance of early modern people on the East Asian mainland. Thus, this work will have a significant impact on our understanding of later human evolution in Asia for many years to come, regardless of individual views on evidence for continuity between early modern and archaic Asians. --Fred Smith, professor of anthropology and Biological Sciences Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University -- (02/08/2010) Not only does this detailed monograph on Tianyuan stand as an excellent example of high-quality description and analysis of important human fossils, it also provides, for the first time, reliably dated evidence on the initial appearance of early modern people on the East Asian mainland. . . . --Fred Smith, professor of anthropology and Biological Sciences Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Illinois State University

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HONG SHANG is an associate professor and associate researcher in the Department of Paleoanthropology, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, where she also received her PhD. ERIK TRINKAUS, a prominent paleoanthropologist and expert on Neandertal and early modern human biology, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

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