{"id":80369,"date":"2018-07-04T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/asias-mysterious-role-in-the-early-origins-of-humanity"},"modified":"2018-07-04T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:02:20","slug":"asias-mysterious-role-in-the-early-origins-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/asias-mysterious-role-in-the-early-origins-of-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Asia\u2019s mysterious role in the early origins of humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asias-mysterious-role-in-the-early-origins-of-humanity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bizarre fossils from China are revealing our species\u2019 Asian origins and rewriting the story of human evolution.<\/p>\n<p>By Kate Douglas<\/p>\n<p>DECEMBER 1941. Japan has just entered the second world war. China, already fighting its neighbour, is in the firing line. At the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Hu Chengzhi carefully packs two wooden crates with the world\u2019s most precious anthropological artefacts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21328502-500-lost-treasures-peking-mans-bones\/\">Peking Man<\/a> \u2013 in reality some 200 fossilised teeth and bones, including six skulls \u2013 is to be shipped to the US for safekeeping. This is the last anyone ever sees of him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23931850-200-asias-mysterious-role-in-the-early-origins-of-humanity\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23931850&#45;200-asia...-humanity\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre fossils from China are revealing our species\u2019 Asian origins and rewriting the story of human evolution. By Kate Douglas DECEMBER 1941. Japan has just entered the second world war. China, already fighting its neighbour, is in the firing line. At the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Hu Chengzhi carefully packs two wooden crates with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}