The Yuanmou Man, a Homo erectus fossil unearthed by railway engineers in the 1960s, has been determined to be the oldest known hominidfossil in China.
上世纪60年代由铁路工人发现的云南“元谋直立人化石”，是迄今为止中国发现的最早的人类化石。
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“I don’t know what to make of this, at least not until there is more substantial fossil material than a partial finger bone, ” he says. “It may be going too far to propose a new hominid.”