Yanjun Cai

Apr 25, 2024 | mdpi.com | Gang Xue |Yanjun Cai |Peng Cheng |Le Ma |Le Anh Ma

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Jan 10, 2024 | nature.com | Yingqi Zhang |Kira E Westaway |Simon G Haberle |Juliën K. Lubeek |Russell Ciochon |Mike Morley | +7 more

AbstractThe largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna, Gigantopithecus blacki1, persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle Pleistocene when it became extinct2,3,4. Its demise is enigmatic considering that it was one of the few Asian great apes to go extinct in the last 2.6 million years, whereas others, including orangutan, survived until the present5. The cause of the disappearance of G.