Zhoukoudian Upper Cave humans lacked proto-Mongoloid morphology unlike Neolithic East Asians.
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Upper Cave skeletons date 35-10 ka BP. Three crania vary: primitive Mongoloid, Melanesian, Eskimo affinities. Upper Cave 101 has long low cranial vault unlike modern East Asians. Forehead broad with receding squama and occipital angulation absent in living East Asians. Nasal bones pinched with high bridge and prominent nose unlike flattened East Asian noses. Orbits low rectangular common in Pleistocene humans worldwide. Lower nasal aperture gutted like East Asians, Australian Aborigines, sub-Saharan Africans. Moderate subnasal prognathism with prominent chin. No Sinodont dental pattern reliably present. Mongoloid facial features absent in Upper Cave and Paleoindian crania. Distinctive East Asian morphology evolves post-Pleistocene in Neolithic China around 7000 BP. Upper Cave preserves Late Pleistocene Old World modern human features not Mongoloid. Harvati's morphometrics confirm distinction from recent East Asians.

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