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| Title |
Early Modern Humans and Morphological Variation in Southeast Asia: Fossil Evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0121193 |
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| Authors |
Fabrice Demeter, Laura Shackelford, Kira Westaway, Philippe Duringer, Anne-Marie Bacon, Jean-Luc Ponche, Xiujie Wu, Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, Jian-Xin Zhao, Lani Barnes, Marc Boyon, Phonephanh Sichanthongtip, Frank Sénégas, Anne-Marie Karpoff, Elise Patole-Edoumba, Yves Coppens, José Braga |
| Abstract |
Little is known about the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in Eastern Eurasia. However a rapid migration out of Africa into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka is supported by archaeological, paleogenetic and paleoanthropological data. Recent discoveries in Laos, a modern human cranium (TPL1) from Tam Pa Ling's cave, provided the first evidence for the presence of early modern humans in mainland Southeast Asia by 63-46 ka. In the current study, a complete human mandible representing a second individual, TPL 2, is described using discrete traits and geometric morphometrics with an emphasis on determining its population affinity. The TPL2 mandible has a chin and other discrete traits consistent with early modern humans, but it retains a robust lateral corpus and internal corporal morphology typical of archaic humans across the Old World. The mosaic morphology of TPL2 and the fully modern human morphology of TPL1 suggest that a large range of morphological variation was present in early modern human populations residing in the eastern Eurasia by MIS 3. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 10% |
| Spain | 9 | 10% |
| Portugal | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 2 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 2% |
| Australia | 2 | 2% |
| Denmark | 2 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 8 | 9% |
| Unknown | 42 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 75 | 81% |
| Scientists | 16 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 22% |
| Researcher | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 10% |
| Professor | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 17 | 21% |
| Unknown | 11 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 21 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 13% |
| Arts and Humanities | 9 | 11% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 9 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 231. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2023.
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