Prunus persica（peach）is an economically important deciduous tree in the Rosaceae family that produces20 million tons of fruit per year.China has a long history of peach cultivation known from both historical and arc...Prunus persica（peach）is an economically important deciduous tree in the Rosaceae family that produces20 million tons of fruit per year.China has a long history of peach cultivation known from both historical and archaeological evidences.So far.展开更多
The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce.Well-dated and well-preserved fossils older than 45.000 years that can be unequivocally attributed to H.sapiens are lacking.In a pap...The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce.Well-dated and well-preserved fossils older than 45.000 years that can be unequivocally attributed to H.sapiens are lacking.In a paper published October 15 online in Nature,Dr.LIU Wu from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology（IVPP）.CAS,and his international team announced the discovery of human teeth between 80.000 and120,000 years old from the newly excavated Fuyan Cave in Daoxian.southern China,展开更多
Mummified fossils are extraordinarily important for understanding both biotic evolution and ecology in the geological time,by uniquely providing a far more detailed source of information in comparison to impression ma...Mummified fossils are extraordinarily important for understanding both biotic evolution and ecology in the geological time,by uniquely providing a far more detailed source of information in comparison to impression materials.However,mummified fossils are extremely rare because of the inevitable requirement of unusual preservation conditions during fossilization,including the lithological features and deposition rate of surrounding rocks,and moisture and temperature conditions（Taylor et al.,2009）.To date,only a few Cenozoic sites have been reported to yield mummified plant fossils around the world,展开更多
文摘Prunus persica（peach）is an economically important deciduous tree in the Rosaceae family that produces20 million tons of fruit per year.China has a long history of peach cultivation known from both historical and archaeological evidences.So far.
文摘The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce.Well-dated and well-preserved fossils older than 45.000 years that can be unequivocally attributed to H.sapiens are lacking.In a paper published October 15 online in Nature,Dr.LIU Wu from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology（IVPP）.CAS,and his international team announced the discovery of human teeth between 80.000 and120,000 years old from the newly excavated Fuyan Cave in Daoxian.southern China,
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41210001, 41372002 & 41528201)National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB822003)
文摘Mummified fossils are extraordinarily important for understanding both biotic evolution and ecology in the geological time,by uniquely providing a far more detailed source of information in comparison to impression materials.However,mummified fossils are extremely rare because of the inevitable requirement of unusual preservation conditions during fossilization,including the lithological features and deposition rate of surrounding rocks,and moisture and temperature conditions（Taylor et al.,2009）.To date,only a few Cenozoic sites have been reported to yield mummified plant fossils around the world,
