Publications by authors named "Zhanyang Li"
Reprogramming of cancer metabolism has become increasingly concerned over the last decade, particularly the reprogramming of glucose metabolism, also known as the "Warburg effect". The reprogramming of glucose metabolism is considered a novel hallmark of human cancers. A growing number of studies have shown that reprogramming of glucose metabolism can regulate many biological processes of cancers, including carcinogenesis, progression, metastasis, and drug resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResults of traditional metric and nonmetric assessments suggest that the Xuchang hominin shares features with Neanderthals. To comprehensively compare the nuchal morphology of XC 2 to those of the genus Homo, we conduct a three-dimensional geometric morphometric study with 35 cranial landmarks and surface semilandmarks of XC 2, Homo erectus, Middle Pleistocene humans, Neanderthals, and early and recent modern humans. Results reveal that the centroid size of XC 2 is larger than that of early and recent modern humans and can only be compared to that of Middle Pleistocene humans and H.
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- Early hominins engaged in activities like stone knapping and woodworking, which may have led them to recognize and utilize skeletal remains as tools.
- Distinguishing between naturally occurring bone fragments and those intentionally modified by early hominins is difficult, but comparing modern experiments with archaeological remains can help identify purposeful bone tool use.
- The discovery of 56 bone tools at the 115 ka-old Lingjing site in China indicates that these tools were likely used for specific tasks where smaller lithics were less effective, reflecting a continuity in tool-making practices.
The recent identification of cave paintings dated to 42-40 ka BP in Borneo and Sulawesi highlights the antiquity of painted representations in this region. However, no instances of three-dimensional portable art, well attested in Europe since at least 40 ka BP, were documented thus far in East Asia prior to the Neolithic. Here, we report the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved miniature carving of a standing bird from the site of Lingjing, Henan, China.
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- Most Chinese lithic industries from 300,000 to 40,000 years ago lack the Levallois technique, focusing instead on core-and-flake knapping with little evidence of prepared cores or retouched flakes.
- Recent findings from the Lingjing site show seven bone soft hammers dating to 125,000-105,000 years ago, marking the first use of bone tools in East Asia for modifying stone tools.
- The discovery challenges existing views on East Asian Middle Palaeolithic culture by suggesting that regional traits should be understood independently, rather than solely through previously established evolutionary benchmarks like the Levallois method.
Two early Late Pleistocene (~105,000- to 125,000-year-old) crania from Lingjing, Xuchang, China, exhibit a morphological mosaic with differences from and similarities to their western contemporaries. They share pan-Old World trends in encephalization and in supraorbital, neurocranial vault, and nuchal gracilization. They reflect eastern Eurasian ancestry in having low, sagittally flat, and inferiorly broad neurocrania.
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