A New Human On The Block.

[Ninurta]

Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery


Nicknamed "Dragon Man", the specimen represents a human group that lived in East Asia at least 146,000 years ago.
It was found at Harbin, north-east China, in 1933, but only came to the attention of scientists more recently.
An analysis of the skull has been published in the journal The Innovation.

Unless I am misremembering, which may be the case. Harbin is @"Guohua"'s home town.

"What you have here is a separate branch of humanity that is not on its way to becoming Homo sapiens (our species),
but represents a long-separate lineage which evolved in the region for several hundred thousand years and eventually
went extinct."


No... these are not ex-employees of the Wuhan Lab.

That gent looks suspiciously Neanderthal. Big, wide-set eyes... check. Heavy brow ridges... check. Broad nasal aperture... check. But it can't be Neanderthal, because scientists tell us Neanderthals did not live as far east as Harbin, China. Luckily, we have another contender in the Denisovans. They were closely related to Neanderthals, and lived in the right area... and it has been mentioned before that a more complete Denisovan cranium may be sitting unrecognized, collecting dust in a museum somewhere - this could be it!

I can't see diagnostically Neanderthal features that may be on these craniums, like the occipital protrusion, the mandibular ramus, or various forae that were on Neanderthals but not modern humans to be able to tell just how close to Neanderthals the skulls may be.


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