About Wu Xinzhi
Lived 1928 – 2021 (aged 93). Wu Xinzhi was a Chinese and Taiwanese archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist.
Wu Xinzhi (; 2 June 1928 – 4 December 2021) was a Chinese paleoanthropologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and former vice director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP).
Biography Wu was born in Hefei, Anhui, China, in 1928. He graduated with a B.S. in medicine from Shanghai Medical College in 1953, and taught from 1953 to 1958 at the Department of Anatomy, Dalian Medical College. He then attended the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On 5 December 2021, he died of an illness in Beijing, aged 93.
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Who was Wu Xinzhi?
Chinese anthropologist (1928–2021)
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Wu Xinzhi was born on 2 June 1928 in Hefei.
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Wu Xinzhi died on 4 December 2021 in Beijing.
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Wu Xinzhi was an archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist.
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Wu Xinzhi was Chinese and Taiwanese.
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