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A unique canine tooth from Peking Man has been found at the Museum of Evolution at Swedish Uppsala University, the university said Wednesday.
Fossils from so-called Peking man are extremely rare, as most of the finds disappeared during World War II.
Swedish paleontologists were the first group of scientists to go to China in the early 20th century to carry out a series of expeditions in collaboration with Chinese colleagues.
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Footwear , it seems, has been fashionable for rather a long time. Toe bones from a cave in China suggest people were wearing shoes at least 40,000 years ago.
Erik Trinkaus and Hong Shang, from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, measured the shape and density of toe bones from a 40,000-year-old skeleton found in Tianyuan cave near Beijing. They compared these bones with those from 20th century urban Americans, late-prehistoric Inuits and other late-prehistoric Native Americans.

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Chinese and foreign scientists have recently confirmed that fossils of modern human beings found in Tianyuan Cave at Zhoukoudian near Beijing traced back to around 40,000 years ago.
A joint research report on the discovery will be published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States America (PNAS) Tuesday.
Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including Shang Hong and Professor Erik Trinkaus from Washington University in St. Louis, completed the research on the fossils.
Beijing Evening News reported on Monday that the modern human fossils dated back 42,000 or 38,500 years, making them the oldest to be found in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent.

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