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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Peking Man Lived 200,000 Years Earlier Than Thought


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The early human species Homo erectus (represented here by a skull found on the Indonesian island of Java) may have existed in its Peking man form in China 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, a March 2009 study says.

Photograph copyright Russell L. Ciochon/University of Iowa via Nature

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