Wu X, Bräuer G
Institute for Human Biology, University of Hamburg.
Z Morphol Anthropol. 1993 Dec;79(3):241-59.
Regional features play a great role in the analysis of the differentiations of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. However, this poses the question how widespread and variable these features are. In order to examine this with regard to the features commonly seen in China their occurrence and variability were determined in Chinese as well as in African crania of archaic and late Pleistocene/Holocene modern Homo sapiens. Furthermore, some features known from Africa were examined with regard to their occurrence and variability in China. Although the variability might change due to new finds, the present results for some features point to larger morphological spectra in the African than in the Chinese archaic Homo sapiens. It is furthermore remarkable that the early modern Chinese in many features show deviations from the pattern of archaic Homo sapiens of this region and exhibit broader spectra similar to those seen in African archaic and early modern Homo sapiens.
区域特征在直立人和智人差异分析中起着重要作用。然而，这就带来了一个问题，即这些特征的分布范围有多广以及变异程度如何。为了针对中国常见的特征来研究这一问题，我们确定了这些特征在中国以及非洲更新世晚期/全新世现代智人化石和旧石器时代晚期智人化石中的出现情况和变异情况。此外，还研究了一些在非洲已知的特征在中国的出现情况和变异情况。尽管由于新发现，变异情况可能会有所变化，但目前一些特征的结果表明，非洲旧石器时代晚期智人的形态谱比中国的更大。此外，值得注意的是，早期现代中国人在许多特征上与该地区旧石器时代晚期智人的模式存在偏差，并且表现出与非洲旧石器时代晚期和早期现代智人相似的更广泛的特征谱。
