- Nanjing Man
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Nanjing Man
Temporal range: PleistoceneConservation status FossilScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Hominidae Genus: Homo Species: H. erectus Subspecies: H. e. nankinensis Trinomial name Homo erectus nankinensis Nanjing Man (Homo erectus nankinensis) a subspecies of Homo erectus found in China. A male and a female skull of Nanjing Man were discovered in 1993 in Tangshan Cave near Nanjing, and they have been dated to be about 580,000 to 620,000 years old[1]. The skull is now preserved in Nanjing Museum and is under in-depth research by authoritative scientists in the field.
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Part of the series on Human evolution Humans and Proto-humansHomo: H. gautengensis · H. habilis · H. rudolfensis · H. georgicus · H. ergaster · H. erectus (H. e. erectus · H. e. lantianensis · H. e. palaeojavanicus · H. e. pekinensis · H. e. nankinensis · H. e. wushanensis · H. e. yuanmouensis · H. e. soloensis) · H. cepranensis · H. antecessor · H. heidelbergensis · Denisova hominin · H. neanderthalensis · H. rhodesiensis · H. floresiensis · Archaic Homo sapiens · Anatomically modern humans (H. s. idaltu · H. s. sapiens)Topics: Timeline of human evolution · List of human evolution fossils · Human evolutionary genetics
Models: Recent African origin · Multiregional originCategories:- Early species of Homo
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