BEIJING, Beijing, May 29 (Reporter Sun since the Act), jointly organized by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, and South Africa, Witwatersrand University paleoanthropologist of the China – Africa Forum on 29 in Beijing, together scholars from South Africa, Germany, France, Japan, Spain, the United States and host China a extensive in-depth in the field of ancient human fossils and Paleolithic archeology, ancient human living environment, age and other exchange, and studied ancient human sites of Zhoukoudian, Beijing.

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China – African paleoanthropology Forum, more than 40 Chinese and foreign scholars have an academic report, concerning the ancient human skull and teeth of fossil morphology, ancient pathology, great apes, dental characteristics, stone types and functions, The ancient human sites, fauna, taphonomy and zooarchaeology analysis, new ways and means of application. Some of these reports on the evolution of relations between China and Africa, ancient human, early human culture, the Chinese Pleistocene, late stage of human evolution discusses.

According to reports, since 2008, in support of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and South Africa, Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and South Africa, Witwatersrand University in the field of paleoanthropology successful cooperation. In the past four years, the two sides researchers through visits, joint research, meetings to exchange, the share of fossil resources, personnel training and other forms to carry out various cooperation and exchanges. Parties to utilize their respective advantages of ancient human fossil resources, the relationship between ancient human evolution in China and Africa, the origin of modern Chinese, ancient human brain evolution, survival of ancient human adaptation activities, new methods and technology, has achieved a number of influential cooperation findings. (End)