Chinese and British scientists announced the discovery of a new ancient human "Dragon Man"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 5 (Reporters Gemdale and Dong Ruifeng) A nearly intact ancient human skull has revealed what mysteries of human evolution have been revealed? Recently, based on the study of the largest known human skull fossil found in Harbin, Heilongjiang, a research team composed of Chinese and British scientists announced the discovery of a new ancient human and its branch.
May have the closest kinship with modern people
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Because the fossil was discovered in Heilongjiang, scientists named this new race "Dragonman"

Relevant research results have been published in the academic journal "Innovation"
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In the long history of human evolution, there have been many early races, and the direct ancestor of modern people, Homo sapiens, is one of them
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What is so special about Dragon Man?

Involved in the study Zhong Keyuan Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology researcher Ni Xijun introduced While this dragon skull "age" of between 14.
6 years to 30.
9 million years ago, both the original characteristics and progress
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For example, it not only has primitive features such as large and square eye sockets and thick brow ridges, but also has relatively short and flat cheekbones

According to reports, this skull is very huge, about one-fifth the size of the Homo sapiens skull; the brain volume is 1,420 ml, which is equivalent to that of Homo sapiens, which means that the dragons have a fairly high level of intelligence
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Dragon people may have been widely distributed in northern Asia.

What is the relationship between Dragon Man and us? Previously, another ancient human, Neanderthal, was believed to have the closest relationship with Homo sapiens
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This study proposed that the Dragon people, the Xiahe people found in Gansu, and the Dali people found in Shaanxi belong to the same branch, that is, they have a common ancestor

"Analysis of phylogeny shows that the differentiation of Neanderthals, Homo sapiens, and dragons occurred earlier than imagined
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These three had a common ancestor.

At the same time, Ni Xijun introduced that the common ancestor of Homo sapiens and dragons may have originated in Africa, but they have migrated and spread many times
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Homo sapiens walked out of Africa about 200,000 years ago, and before that, the branch of the dragon people may have evolved in Asia for hundreds of thousands of years

It should be noted that although the research team said that the dragon is a new race, some questions still need to be further answered
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For example, in this study, the Xiahe people are considered to belong to the same branch as the dragon people

So, will the Denisovans and the Dragons be one kind of people? Regarding this question, Ni Xijun explained that the Denisovans are not an officially named race.
They are named after the Denisovan Cave found in Russia
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The fossils currently found in Denisova Cave are very broken and no skulls have been found

The study was from Hebei University of Geosciences, Zhong Keyuan together researchers completed the ancient spine, such as the British Museum of Natural History
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