New findings by scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, US, and the University of GuizhouinChina, have indicated that a collection of fossils known as Peking Man, is at least 100,000 years older than believed. These discoveries could further explairi the evolutioll of humans in Asia. They suggest that prunitive hominids in Asia may have died before modern humans came irito existence, or they could have evolved into direct ancestors of modern humans. Homil1idsare primates of the family Hominidae that iricludes anatomically modern humans.