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Joel Kontinen
Darwinism has for long made clear that humans were very unsophisticated in the beginning, but more and more texts and artefacts that propose the contrary have been discovered.
A research term has
found 2,200-year-old Chinese texts that likely pertain to the human body. The
texts were discovered in the 1970s.
In a paper recently
published Sept. 1 in the journal The Anatomical Record, a research team led
by Vivien Shaw, an anatomy lecturer at Bangor University in Wales in the United
Kingdom, argues that these texts "are the oldest surviving anatomical
atlas in the world."
The team concludes that the texts
"represent the earliest surviving anatomical atlas, designed to provide a
concise description of the human body for students and practitioners of
medicine in ancient China.”
Source:
Jarus, Owen, 2020. 2,200-year-old Chinese text may be
oldest surviving anatomical atlas. Live Science 8 September
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