Jing Zhang

Chapter 12 Population Layer: Threshold Determination of Cultural Effective Population Size —The second threshold of the LSED framework

Finding stone tools and fossils at an archaeological site does not mean people continuously lived on that land. For a human group to persist in one place for tens of thousands of years, four constraints must be satisfied simultaneously: enough people, connected, no gaps, sufficie...

Shandong Evolutionary Model Chapter 11 Elimination Test: Logical Self-Consistency Screening of Global Candidate Regions

This chapter applies the exclusion method established in Chapter 10 to eleven candidate regions proposed as the original site of modern human emergence, under a unified parameter framework. Luxi (western Shandong) is included as a self-examination item and judged by the same crit...