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ArticleInnovation (Cambridge (Mass.))2021

Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage.

Xijun Ni, Qiang Ji, Wensheng Wu, Qingfeng Shao, Yannan Ji, Chi Zhang, Lei Liang, Junyi Ge, Zhen Guo, Jinhua Li and 3 more

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Article in Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Xijun NiHebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China.
Qiang JiHebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China.
Wensheng WuHebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China.
Qingfeng ShaoKey Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Yannan JiChina Geo-Environmental Monitoring Institute, Beijing 100081, China.
Chi ZhangCAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100044, China.
Lei LiangHebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China.
Junyi GeCAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100044, China.
Zhen GuoHebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China.
Jinhua LiKey Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
Qiang LiCAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100044, China.
Rainer GrünAustralian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.
Chris StringerCentre for Human Evolution Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has recently become clear that several human lineages coexisted with

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human cranium fossilhuman dispersalhuman diversificationhuman phylogeny

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PMCPMC8454562

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