About the Authors

Xiu-Jie Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu-Jie Wu, Erik Trinkaus

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Song Xing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Erik Trinkaus

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu-Jie Wu, Erik Trinkaus

trinkaus@artsci.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed to the data collection and analysis: SX. Conceived and designed the experiments: XJW ET. Performed the experiments: XJW SX ET. Analyzed the data: XJW SX ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XJW SX. Wrote the paper: XJW ET.