Paleontology: advancing China's international leadership

作     者：Hepeng Jia 

作者机构：Writes for NSR from Beijing 

出 版 物：《National Science Review》 (国家科学评论(英文版))

年 卷 期：2019年第6卷第1期

页      面：171-176页

核心收录：

学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 

主　　题：Paleontology advancing China’s international leadership 

摘      要：In recent years, Chinese scientists have achieved significant progress in paleontological discoveries and scientific studies. Series of studies published in top journals, such as Science, Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(PNAS), have astonished the world by presenting beautiful fossils that furnish robust evidence to enrich the understanding of organismic evolution, major extinctions and stratigraphy. It has been portrayed as the heyday in the paleontology of China. What is the status of the field?What factors have caused the avalanche of fossil discoveries in China? What implications can these new discoveries