Fu Qiaomei

Lead researcher, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Born: March 24, 1982, Jiangxi

Education: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwest University

Last updated Nov 2, 2026

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Ancient tooth proteins suggest link between Homo erectus and modern humans

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As of September 2026: Leading the team that published the Nature study

Six 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China have yielded the oldest hominin proteins ever recovered in East Asia. The proteins carry two mutations that tie these ancient humans to a single evolutionary lineage, and one of them also appears in Denisovans, an archaic human group that interbred with modern humans.

Updated Sep 11