期 刘武等中更新世非洲Bod人类头骨化石与周口店直立人的比较 中国与非洲人类头骨特征对比之三 erectus and Homo sapiens can be identified on the Bodo cranium the affinity of Bodo cranium has been in debate. Rightmire believes that the Bodo cranium with pre resemblance to the archaic Homo sapi- ens of Broken Hill and Petralona is the representative of the transitions from Homo erectus to archaic amo sapiens in Africa. At least as early as 0. 6 Ma the speciation event of the transition fom Homo erectus to the archaic Homo sapiens happened in Africa, which is much earlier than in Asia and Er ope. The human fossils represented by the Bodo cranium and other Middle Pleistocene specimens form Africa and Europe constitute an assemblage of Homo heidelbergensis which may be the direct ancestor of later humans. These opinions led to the discussions of the emergence time of the archaic Homo sapi ens in Africa and Eurasia, and the relationship between the humans of Middle Pleistocene in Africa and Auras For this background, in this paper the comparisons of morphological features between the Bodo cranium and the Homo erectus of Zhoukoudian were carried out. Out results show that several feature of the bodo cranium resemble those of Zhoukoudian homo erectus. some other features including the crar nial capacity exhibits the patterns of later Homo sapiens. In its overall mrphology, the Bod cranium ems to be closer to Homo erectus. The authors believe that even though the orphological mosaic pat ern of human ewol ution can be found in the human fossil records of China, the uncertainty of the ages of Chinese human fossils makes o reliable evidence to demonstrate contemporary or earlier occurrence of the mosaic pattern of Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens as in Africa. Taking the big time gap of between African and Asian Homo erectus, and the unsynchronism and regional variations of human evolution into considerations, it is possible for the humans with ore advanced features first appeared in Africa. Based on the comparisons in the present study, the mosaic patterns in the human evolution, and the differences of the middle pleistocene human evolution in africa and asia are discussed Key words: Human evolution; Homo erectus; Archaic Homo sapiens; Bodo; Zhoukoudian o1994-2006ChinaAcademicJOurnalElectronicPublishingHouse.alLrightsreservedhttp://www.cnkierectus and Homo sapiens can be identified on the Bodo cranium ,the affinity of Bodo cranium has been in debate. Rightmire believes that the Bodo cranium with more resemblance to the archaic Homo sapi2 ens of Broken Hill and Petralona is the representative of the transitions from Homo erectus to archaic Homo sapiens in Africa. At least as early as 016 Ma the speciation event of the transition from Homo erectus to the archaic Homo sapiens happened in Africa ,which is much earlier than in Asia and Eu2 rope. The human fossils represented by the Bodo cranium and other Middle Pleistocene specimens form Africa and Europe constitute an assemblage of Homo heidelbergensis ,which may be the direct ancestor of later humans. These opinions led to the discussions of the emergence time of the archaic Homo sapi2 ens in Africa and Eurasia ,and the relationship between the humans of Middle Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia. For this background ,in this paper the comparisons of morphological features between the Bodo cranium and the Homo erectus of Zhoukoudian were carried out. Out results show that several feature of the Bodo cranium resemble those of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus. Some other features including the cra2 nial capacity exhibits the patterns of later Homo sapiens. In its overall morphology ,the Bodo cranium seems to be closer to Homo erectus. The authors believe that even though the morphological mosaic pat2 tern of human evolution can be found in the human fossil records of China ,the uncertainty of the ages of Chinese human fossils makes no reliable evidence to demonstrate contemporary or earlier occurrence of the mosaic pattern of Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens as in Africa. Taking the big time gap of between African and Asian Homo erectus ,and the unsynchronism and regional variations of human evolution into considerations ,it is possible for the humans with more advanced features first appeared in Africa. Based on the comparisons in the present study ,the mosaic patterns in the human evolution ,and the differences of the Middle Pleistocene human evolution in Africa and Asia are discussed. Key words: Human evolution ; Homo erectus ; Archaic Homo sapiens ; Bodo ; Zhoukoudian · 921 · 2 期 刘 武等 :中更新世非洲 Bodo 人类头骨化石与周口店直立人的比较 ———中国与非洲人类头骨特征对比之三