ZHAO Lingxia

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044 China

FIRST PARAGRAPH: Southern China was an important refuge for hominoid since the Late Miocene to Pleistocene when hominoids became extinct throughout the rest of Eurasia. Lufengpithecus, Gigantopithecus, Pongo-like and hominin fossils represent the major members of hominoid in China which might be related to the process of early hominin origin and evolution in east Asia.