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. 2021 Jun 1;118(22):e2102961118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102961118.

On the misidentification and unreliable context of the new "human teeth" from Fuyan Cave (China)

María Martinón-Torres  1   2 , Yanjun Cai  3 , Haowen Tong  4   5 , Shuwen Pei  4   5 , Song Xing  4   5 , José María Bermúdez de Castro  6   2 , Xiujie Wu  4   5 , Wu Liu  4   5
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On the misidentification and unreliable context of the new "human teeth" from Fuyan Cave (China)

María Martinón-Torres et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Morphological comparison of human and deer lower incisors. (A) H. sapiens lower incisor recovered at Fuyan Cave in 2012 and published in Liu et al. (2); o, occlusal; d, distal; m, mesial; b, buccal; and l, lingual. (B) FY-HT-2 tooth recovered by Sun et al. (1) at Fuyan in 2019 and alleged to be human (reprinted with permission from ref. 1); (C) o, d, m, b, and l views of Cervus lower incisors recovered at Fuyan Cave in 2012; and (D) lingual view of lower dentition from a recent Cervus (reprinted with permission from ref. 7). Note the intense lingual rather than incisal wear present in Cervus specimens as well as in FY-HT-2. Note also the shape similarities in root and crown shape and orientation in B−D.
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