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Posted on 06/29/2021 3:13:28 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The discovery of a huge fossilised skull that was wrapped up and hidden in a Chinese well nearly 90 years ago has forced scientists to rewrite the story of human evolution.
Analysis of the remains has revealed a new branch of the human family tree that points to a previously unknown sister group more closely related to modern humans than the Neanderthals.
The extraordinary fossil has been named a new human species, Homo longi or “Dragon man”, by Chinese researchers, although other experts are more cautious about the designation.
“I think this is one of the most important finds of the past 50 years,” said Prof Chris Stringer, research leader at the Natural History Museum in London, who worked on the project. “It’s a wonderfully preserved fossil.”
Dragon Man: A giant? The skull appears to have a remarkable backstory. According to the researchers, it was originally found in 1933 by Chinese labourers building a bridge over the Songhua River in Harbin, in China’s northernmost province, Heilongjiang, during the Japanese occupation.
To keep the skull from falling into Japanese hands it was wrapped and hidden in an abandoned well, resurfacing only in 2018 after the man who hid it told his grandson about it shortly before he died.
An international team led by Prof Qiang Ji at the Hebei Geo University in China drew on geochemical techniques to narrow down when the skull came to rest in Harbin, dating the bones to at least 146,000 years old. The skull has a unique combination of primitive and more modern features, with the face, in particular, more closely resembling Homo sapiens. One huge molar remains.
The skull, which is 23cm long and more than 15cm wide, is substantially larger than a modern human’s and has ample room, at 1,420ml, for a modern human brain. Beneath the thick brow ridge, the face has large square eye sockets, but is delicate despite its size. “This guy had a huge head,” said Stringer.
The researchers believe the skull belonged to a male, about 50 years old, who would have been an impressive physical specimen. His wide, bulbous nose allowed him to breathe huge volumes of air, indicating a high-energy lifestyle, while sheer size would have helped him withstand the brutally cold winters in the region.
“Homo longi is heavily built, very robust,” said Prof Xijun Ni, a paleoanthropologist at Hebei. “It is hard to estimate the height, but the massive head should match a height higher than the average of modern humans.”
To work out where the Harbin individual fitted into human history, the scientists fed measurements from the fossil and 95 other skulls into software that compiled the most likely family tree. To their surprise, the Harbin skull and a handful of others from China formed a new branch closer to modern humans than Neanderthals.
The Chinese researchers believe the Harbin skull is distinct enough to make it a new species, but Stringer is not convinced. He believes it is similar to another found in Dali county in China in 1978.
“I prefer to call it Homo daliensis, but it’s not a big deal,” he said. “The important thing is the third lineage of later humans that are separate from Neanderthals and separate from Homo sapiens.”
Details are published in three papers in The Innovation. (study 1, study 2, study 3).
“Genetic analysis shows that these species interacted and interbred – our own genetics contain the legacy of many of these ghost species. But what is a sobering thought, is that despite all this diversity, a new version of Homo sapiens emerged from Africa about 60,000 years ago which clearly out-competed, out-bred, and even out-fought these other closely related species, causing their extinction. It is only by painstaking searching and analysis of their fossils, such as the Harbin skull, do we know of their existence.”
If you have to rewrite the book on human evolution from a discovery of a larger than normal skull, the book must be mighty sparse.
Being kept in a well (hermetically sealed on Funk and Wagnells’ farm) doesnt bode well for accurate dating of the skull either. Too much could have happened to the skull on an environmental level.
LA Marzulli is so much hipper than his brother Clovis "Man" Marzulli.
Looks like Homo Erectus.
Very possible
Because everything that comes out of chicomland is legitimate…
I remember the ads when it came out, but I actually watched it just a few years ago. I thought it was more weird than bad.
That’s only a “new” species to someone who has never read the Bible. It’s obviously the skull of a Nephilim, a giant monstrosity described in Genesis Chapter 6. There were many giant skeletons found here in the U.S., and all over the globe. Matter of fact, one or more were recently unearthed somewhere in Russia.
Nephilim skull
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That would be my guess also. If “ science” put as much time into proving the Bible rather than disproving the Bible, mankind would be light years ahead of where we are today. Judging by the replies, virtually nobody knows what the Nephilim are, which means they have not read and studied the Bible…..which is exactly why America is what it is today, and why it is rapidly decaying…the smell is getting awful.
I believe you are correct sir. 👍
I can agree with that.
https://youtu.be/DQE800eZZ_w
Possibly, but as I understand it, the fallen angels did the Genesis 6 thing over again, some time AFTER the Flood, when the population had become somewhat restored. That would explain David’s run-in with Goliath centuries after Noah’s Flood. The last giant named in the Bible was Og, king of Bashan. He was killed by Jewish soldiers, if memory serves.
You may be right, but if there was a second incursion by the fallen angels, (Numbers 13) to do the same thing they did in Genesis 6, I suspect it was another suicide mission, as they were probably locked up in Tartarus, as the watchers were. If indeed, that is what happened, I don’t think the outbreak was nearly as big as the first one. As in the days of Noah, I think means those hybrids are coming back, and may already be here.
As far as who killed Og? I had no clue, so I looked it up. It may very well be, exactly as you said. 👍
What movie is that from?
Zardoz
Probably the only Connery movie I have not seen. He did a great job in Rising Son.
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Species of apes have prominent brows like this. I have a problem with China finding all these new, unknown fossils, and skulls. I don’t trust those f-ers one bit.
“Nephilim”
Beat me to it.
Subtle, very subtle, lol....
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