>> It's never been popular in China, it's never not been disputed and it's   
   >> never been internally consistent.   
   >   
   >A tv programme I once saw seemed to suggest, and I am not sure that I   
   >have got this right, that the Chinese think that they are descended from   
   >Homo erectus.  As they can breed with all other surviving humans, this   
   >seems a but odd.   
      
   Yes, that is the view of some chinese.  Of course national pride is   
   stroaked when some of the first fozzels, but not the oldestt found later in   
   africa, of homo erectus were found in china.   
      
   The chinese ethnocentric spin can not be ignored on this.   
      
   They propose a multiple place origin of modrn humans, china among them of   
   course.   
      
   Here a recent paper looks at how credable the evidence is:   
      
   'On the origin of modern humans in China'   
      
   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618203001   
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