Meaning of Dragon Man | Babel Free

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The archaic human species Homo longi.

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“Today, the skull is finally coming out of hiding, and it has a new name: Dragon Man, the newest member of the human family, who lived more than 146,000 years ago.”

“Yet dragon man is stirring debate, with some experts suggesting it could be a Denisovan, a mysterious Neanderthal sister group represented by scant fossils.”

“The Harbin specimen, nicknamed ‘Dragon Man’, is a very large cranium that appears facially closer to H. sapiens, but has an elongated braincase more similar to H. heidelbergensis”

“Some researchers assigned the skull a new species name, Homo longi (“dragon man”) and argued that it is a sister species of H. sapiens (Ji et al., 2021)”

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