The Chinese Academy of Sciences team found the earliest direct evidence of modern human plant food in East Asia and tooth picking behavior - Teller Report

2022-09-08T09:31:04.625Z

The research team led by Wu Yan, a young researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), has analyzed the earliest known modern humans in East Asia (80,000-120,000 years ago) unearthed from the Fuyan Cave Site in Daoxian County, Hunan Province. ) tooth fossils were extracted and analyzed for dental calculus. The latest research found direct evidence of the earliest modern human plant food in East Asia, and found that ancient humans at that time already had tooth picking behavior. The results of this important research discovery have been published in the international professional academic journal Frontiers in Plant Science. The picture shows on September 7, Beijing, the Herbarium of the Institute of Ancient Spine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences displays a fossil specimen of the earliest modern human tooth in East Asia unearthed from the Fuyan Cave site in Daoxian County, Hunan Province for this study. Photo by China News Agency reporter Sun Zifa