Uplift of the Hengduan Mountains on the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau in the late Miocene and its paleoenvironmental impact on hominoid diversity

The southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau has a number of well-known Late Miocene localities that have yielded fossil hominoids belonging to Lufengpithecus and Khoratpithecus. These localities provide critical evidence about the evolutionary history of hominoids, including their response to environmental changes associated with uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. Here we present magnetostratigraphic dating of the Baoshan hominoid locality in...