Posted on 09/28/2025 8:04:59 AM PDT by Twotone
A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.
Scientists digitally reconstructed the squashed skull, thought to be 1 million years old, and its features suggest that the fossil belonged to the same lineage as a striking specimen called “Dragon Man” and the Denisovans — an enigmatic and recently discovered population of prehistoric humans with murky origins. The skull’s age and categorization as an early Denisovan ancestor would mean the group originated much earlier than thought.
The researchers’ wider analysis, based on the reconstruction and more than 100 other skull fossils, has also sketched a radically different picture of human evolution, they reported Thursday in the journal Science. The results significantly shift the timeline for species such as our own, Homo sapiens, and Homo neanderthalensis. Neanderthals, archaic humans who lived in Europe and Central Asia before disappearing around 40,000 years ago, are known to have lived alongside the Denisovans and interbred with them.
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This Guy likes ancient humans whose skulls were not squashed.
This Guy likes ancient humans whose skulls were not squashed.
scientists also ‘say’ that mankind is causing climate change
But we can figure out what the temperature of the earth should be...right??
A Chinese anthropologist once said, “In China you cant criticize the govt but you can criticize Darwin. In the USA it is the opposite.”
Sure we can. He had an orchid perched on his ear.
And if you disagree...well, Hillary summed it up. Off with their heads. Believe her when she says it, killing political opponents is something the left has perfected. As evidence i offer you the 20th century.
“scientists also ‘say’ that mankind is causing climate change”
You, obviously, have no concept of reality.
“scientists also ‘say’ that mankind is causing climate change”
You, obviously, have no concept of reality.
China wants their ape-men to be first.
But wait! What about settled science?
Replace Denosovians with Nephilim and reread the story.
Since the human lineage goes back before the Denisovans - this is just more bunkum from grant seekers.
Africa not amused
I thought science was settled.
I smell bullshit Chinese propaganda.
You just make that up?
Anything from a Chinese anthropologist is suspect because they’ve preached for eons (and still believe) that their race evolved independently of the “Out of Africa” crowd, despite the fact that the Genome Project has done the math and determined the Chinese are just another homeboy, just like the rest of us.
No. It was an article posted here.
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