The east Asian hominid fossil sequence presents an unequaled opportunity for the development and testing of hypotheses about human evolution. For at least a million years, east Asia was the easternmost edge of the inhabited world. For a considerable part of the time period of human paleontological studies, the east Asian fossil record provided data for the interpretation of human fossils from other major geographic regions.
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Wolpoff, Wu and Thorne - Modern Homo sapiens Origins, A General Theory of Hominid Evolution, Involving the Fossil Evidence From East Asia - 84
The east Asian hominid fossil sequence presents an unequaled opportunity for the development and testing of hypotheses about human evolution. For at least a million years, east Asia was the …