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A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say
CNN ^ | September 25, 2025 | Katie Hunt

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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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; china; dragonman; godsgravesglyphs; skull
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1 posted on 09/28/2025 8:04:59 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

This Guy likes ancient humans whose skulls were not squashed.


2 posted on 09/28/2025 8:06:28 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Twotone

This Guy likes ancient humans whose skulls were not squashed.


3 posted on 09/28/2025 8:06:33 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Twotone

scientists also ‘say’ that mankind is causing climate change


4 posted on 09/28/2025 8:06:51 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Twotone

But we can figure out what the temperature of the earth should be...right??


5 posted on 09/28/2025 8:12:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Twotone

A Chinese anthropologist once said, “In China you cant criticize the govt but you can criticize Darwin. In the USA it is the opposite.”


6 posted on 09/28/2025 8:13:55 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Sacajaweau

Sure we can. He had an orchid perched on his ear.


7 posted on 09/28/2025 8:15:12 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Sacajaweau
We can't. But the special people seeking power and control sure insist they can.

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.

8 posted on 09/28/2025 8:19:37 AM PDT by Kudsman (Emulate Charlie, not the left.)
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To: Bob434

“scientists also ‘say’ that mankind is causing climate change”

You, obviously, have no concept of reality.


9 posted on 09/28/2025 8:27:05 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: Bob434

“scientists also ‘say’ that mankind is causing climate change”

You, obviously, have no concept of reality.


10 posted on 09/28/2025 8:27:08 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: Twotone

China wants their ape-men to be first.


11 posted on 09/28/2025 8:38:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (They don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.--CFW)
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To: Twotone

But wait! What about settled science?


12 posted on 09/28/2025 8:38:20 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Twotone

Replace Denosovians with Nephilim and reread the story.


13 posted on 09/28/2025 9:18:49 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Sailing the Sea of Ignorance on a Ship named Free Republic)
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To: Twotone

Since the human lineage goes back before the Denisovans - this is just more bunkum from grant seekers.


14 posted on 09/28/2025 9:28:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Twotone

Africa not amused


15 posted on 09/28/2025 11:11:17 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Twotone

I thought science was settled.


16 posted on 09/28/2025 12:17:04 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Twotone

I smell bullshit Chinese propaganda.


17 posted on 09/28/2025 1:12:47 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: Seruzawa

You just make that up?


18 posted on 09/28/2025 2:26:41 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Twotone

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.


19 posted on 09/28/2025 3:09:11 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: ifinnegan

No. It was an article posted here.


20 posted on 09/28/2025 5:22:49 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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