Laura Shackelford stated that the Tam Pa Ling skull shows no evidence that the individual's ancestors interbred with Homo erectus.
Notes on verification
Direct quote attribution comes from a single original source (Archaeology magazine) reproduced elsewhere, but the substance is corroborated by peer-reviewed publications co-authored by Shackelford describing fully modern morphology without archaic features.
Sources
- Digs & Discoveries - Settling Southeast Asia - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2012 (archaeology.org)
- https://factsanddetails.com/asian/cat62/sub406/entry-2811.html (factsanddetails.com)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3437904 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4388508/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)