Posted on 06/25/2021 12:42:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
The fossil may represent a new Homo species that lived more than 146,000 years ago
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A fossil skull nicknamed “Dragon Man” has surfaced in China under mysterious circumstances, with big news for Neandertals. Dragon Man belonged to a previously unrecognized Stone Age species that replaces Neandertals as the closest known relatives of people today, researchers say.
A nearly complete male skull now housed in the Geoscience Museum of Hebei GEO University in Shijiazhuang, China, represents a species dubbed Homo longi by Hebei GEO paleoanthropologist Xijun Ni and his colleagues. The scientists describe the skull, which dates to at least 146,000 years ago, and analyze its position in Homo evolution in three papers published June 25 in The Innovation.
Qiang Ji, a paleontologist also at Hebei GEO, received the skull in 2018 from a farmer who said the fossil had been dug up by a coworker of his grandfather’s in 1933. During bridge construction over a river in Harbin, China, the worker allegedly scooped the skull out of river sediment. Whether or not that story is true, this fossil could help answer questions about a poorly understood period of human evolution.
“The Harbin cranium presents a combination of features setting it apart from other Homo species,” Ji says. The name H. longi derives from a Chinese term for the province where it was found, which translates as “dragon river.” That term inspired the nickname Dragon Man.
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A skull from northeastern China nicknamed “Dragon Man” (far right) comes from a new Homo species that contributed to human evolution at least 146,000 years ago, scientists say. Other Chinese Homo skulls from around that time or earlier, including Peking Man (far left), appear next to Dragon Man.
KAI GENG
PinGGG!..............................
I had a dragon man skull once.
I was once a Dragon Man like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee.
Peking Man
I read that all the Peking Man bones disappeared in WW II.
I thought that Trogdor was the only Dragon Man.
the dragon man looks like a thinker.
I really begin to wonder if these different species of man are really all that different. Many of us are walking around with apparently some percentage of Neanderthal DNA, so it’s pretty much a given these different species are similar enough to produce viable offspring. The whole “nearest relative” thing really seems to blur into nothing more than genetic drift among different groups of humans.
I used to show up for work hung over.....they said I had a Chinese disease,Dragon a$$.
Peking man was fake.
“ Peking Man became one of the “missing links” in the 1920’s. A man by the name of Davidson Black found a single tooth near Peking, China. After being given a grant of $80,000.00 from the Rockefeller Foundation, it was discovered that the tooth was found in a town garbage dump. The site contained thousands of animal bones and a few human bone fragments. From these fragments Peking Man was declared to be the “missing link” in the evolution of ape to man.
Now, all evidence of the Peking Man has strangely disappeared even though it is still featured as one of the great “missing links” in many text books”
Nephilim. Gotta be.
About us having neanderthal DNA. Perhaps. But I believe the association to neanderthal DNA isn’t as strong as we thought about 5 or 10 years ago.
Neandertals were smarter than libtards so maybe they will care.
If, in 150K years from now, someone were to dig up fossils of Ken Jeong, Shaquille O’Neil, Joe Rogan and Tom Brady...I would imagine they would conclude that we had 4 different species roaming America in 2021.
Yep.
Yep, humans are rare as a species as all of us are so closely related. We’re all descended from the same small number of people rather recently.
That also makes the gap between us and other species very large.
Compare that to dogs, where wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs can all interbreed and there is huge variation within each species. For most creatures the lines between species is much blurrier than for us.
I give up. What species, gender, home planet?
Piltdown Man has come back!
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