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| Title |
Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0031918 |
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| Authors |
Darren Curnoe, Ji Xueping, Andy I. R. Herries, Bai Kanning, Paul S. C. Taçon, Bao Zhende, David Fink, Zhu Yunsheng, John Hellstrom, Luo Yun, Gerasimos Cassis, Su Bing, Stephen Wroe, Hong Shi, William C. H. Parr, Huang Shengmin, Natalie Rogers |
| Abstract |
Later Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a scarcity of well described, reliably classified and accurately dated fossils. Southwest China has been identified from genetic research as a hotspot of human diversity, containing ancient mtDNA and Y-DNA lineages, and has yielded a number of human remains thought to derive from Pleistocene deposits. We have prepared, reconstructed, described and dated a new partial skull from a consolidated sediment block collected in 1979 from the site of Longlin Cave (Guangxi Province). We also undertook new excavations at Maludong (Yunnan Province) to clarify the stratigraphy and dating of a large sample of mostly undescribed human remains from the site. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 122 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 11% |
| Italy | 4 | 3% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Spain | 3 | 2% |
| Australia | 3 | 2% |
| France | 3 | 2% |
| Norway | 2 | 2% |
| Belgium | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 26 | 21% |
| Unknown | 43 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 95 | 78% |
| Scientists | 18 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 273 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Brazil | 3 | 1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | 2% |
| Unknown | 246 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 59 | 22% |
| Researcher | 56 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 7% |
| Professor | 18 | 7% |
| Other | 66 | 24% |
| Unknown | 24 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 84 | 31% |
| Arts and Humanities | 48 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 40 | 15% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 22 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 36 | 13% |
| Unknown | 30 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 399. 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 23 July 2023.
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#76,920
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#1,283
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#275
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#10
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