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Katerina Harvati is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen not associated with the study. Among her research subjects is the controversial skull from Apidima, Greece, that may or may not represent the oldest modern human ever found outside of Africa. We Dragons wish to help you transform out of fear consciousness and to assist others in moving out of fear consciousness also. Mark Maslin, a professor of earth system science at UCL and the author of The Cradle of Humanity, said: “The beautifully preserved Chinese Harbin archaic human skull adds even more evidence that human evolution was not a simple evolutionary tree but a dense intertwined bush. We now know that there were as many as 10 different species of hominins at the same time as our own species emerged. Measures of the decay of radioactive uranium in the Harbin skull provided its minimum age estimate of 146,000 years. Chemical analyses of the fossil and sediment still attached to it indicate an origin in the Harbin area, even if the researchers can’t confirm the farmer’s story to Ji. An artist’s reconstruction shows an adult male, based on a nearly complete fossil skull, who belonged to a newly proposed Homo species that lived at least 146,000 years ago in what’s now northern China. Chuang Zhao That theory fits with an evolutionary picture in which smaller populations evolve in isolation, intermittently expand over time and mix with others and then separate again into smaller groups that continue to adapt to their localized environments before again meeting and breeding with other groups.
Our results suggest that the Harbin cranium, or Homo longi, represents a lineage that is the sister group of the H. sapiens lineage. So we say H. longi is phylogenetically closer to H. sapiens than Neanderthals are.” And then there was the skull’s unusual size: "It's enormous," says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum. 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.
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The Harbin cranium was first found in 1933 in the city of the same name but was reportedly hidden in a well for 85 years to protect it from the Japanese army. 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. Direct uranium-series dating suggests the skull is at least 146,000 years old, but a lot more work was needed to attempt to put the isolated fossil into context after 90 years.
More than 100,000 years ago, several human species coexisted across Eurasia and Africa, including our own, Neanderthals and Denisovans, a recently discovered sister species to Neanderthals. “Dragon man” might now be added to that list. Claims of a new human species are sure to cause skepticism and spark debate. But it seems that wherever the 146,000-year-old fossil falls on the human family tree, it will add to growing evidence that a fascinating and diverse period of evolution was occurring in China from about 100,000 to 500,000 years ago. Then there are the mysterious Denisovans. Though not formally recognized as its own species, this group likely inhabited Asia for tens of thousands of years, and many Asian fossils have been suggested as members. But because scientists have found only meager fossil traces of their existence, genetic confirmation is necessary—and DNA preservation becomes increasingly unlikely with older fossils.
Does Dragon Man represent a new human species?
You are taken on a guided meditation with the Dragon Skulls to alter your chakra system to a more crystalline frequency to make communication easier and more profound with your skulls. We are primarily at this time focusing on activating the pineal glands of humanity, for this gland is like your radar for higher consciousness yet it is affected by calcification from toxins and poisons such as fluoride that you have within your diet and also by EMF’s from television screens and computers. All of the specimens from East Asian in the Middle Pleistocene [from 770,000 to 126,000 years ago]—it’s possible that they all represent interbreeding. The people represented by Dragon Man likely didn’t disappear, but rather continued breeding with other early humans. Present-day humans in parts of East and Southeast Asia still have between 2 and 6 percent Denisovan DNA. Artist’s rendering of what Dragon Man’s face might have looked like. Schmitt says, based on Dragon Man’s cranial size, there’s no reason to doubt the people he represents were any more or less intelligent than contemporary humans. Humans living at that time were likely to use tools, which means they probably had culture—to make tools you generally need to learn those skills socially and pass those skills on to others. Photo courtesy of Zhao Chuang If the skull is Denisovan, what will that tell us about our evolutionary history? This population would have been hunter-gatherers, living off the land,” said Stringer. “From the winter temperatures in Harbin today, it looks like they were coping with even harsher cold than the Neanderthals.” a b c d e f Ji, Qiang; Wu, Wensheng; Ji, Yannan; Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun (2021-06-25). "Late Middle Pleistocene Harbin cranium represents a new Homo species". The Innovation. 2 (3): 100132. Bibcode: 2021Innov...200132J. doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100132. ISSN 2666-6758. PMC 8454552. PMID 34557772.
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