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Early modern human teeth(Courtesy S. Xing and X-J. Wu)
Fuyan Cave in southern China does not contain any artifacts, but it did have 47 teeth that came from the mouths of Homo sapiens at least 80,000 years ago. The find shows that our species had reached China more than 30,000 years before entering Europe, and is changing ideas about how Homo sapiens settled the world beyond Africa.
According to Maria Martinon-Torres, a paleoanthropologist at University College London, Neanderthals and othe
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