What can Homo Longi tell us about our past?
An abnormally large, and old skull of a new species of man known as Homo Longi, "the Dragon Man", was recently uncovered in the Northeastern part of China. Scientists examined the skull and confirmed that it was not only a new species, but that it was going to take the Neanderthals place as mans, brand new, closest relative.
Who was the Dragon Man?
And what does Homo Longi's physical features, such as his enormous brain size and relatively nonexistent chin, say about our past? Could it have been that Homo Longi's skull is just the complete Denisovan skull that we've been looking for? Is he a particularly robust Pleistocene human with a large brain? And regardless, do all of these new finds tell us that we don't really know as much about our past as we thought?
TMP
The Millennial
Sources:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cp-mf061721.php
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-6758%2821%2900055-2
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-6758%2821%2900057-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06004-0
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/stunning-dragon-man-skull-may-be-elusive-denisovan-or-new-species-human
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/march/fossil-evidence-of-southern-denisovans-yet-to-be-found.html#:~:text=The%20Denisovans%20have%20so%20far,cave%20on%20the%20Tibetan%20plateau.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-changed-shape-your-nose-180962567/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170316141054.htm
http://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics/brains
https://old-www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/phychar/02_brain_size.html
https://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics/brains
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2014.00015/full
My Brain
#DragonMan
#Neanderthal
#Evolution
#Prehistoric
#History
#Science
#Denisovan
#AllThingsApes
-
10:00
NORTH02
2 years ago $0.01 earnedHomo longi - The Dragon Man
10 -
48:00
NORTH02
2 years ago $0.01 earnedHomo Heidelbergensis - Ancient Human
27 -
9:24
History Worm
9 months agoHomo Naledi Shocking Discovery By Scientists In Rising Star Cave South Africa Changes Everything
181 -
38:32
NORTH02
7 months ago $0.06 earnedHomo Antecessor - Ancient Human
1772 -
50:00
NORTH02
2 years agoHomo Habilis - Ancient Human
30 -
0:37
Cryptostreets
2 months agoBecoming Human: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About Who We Are
26 -
0:59
NORTH02
10 months agoHow Old did Ancient Humans Get? #ancienthuman #history #human #neanderthal #paleoanthropology
155 -
35:00
NORTH02
1 year ago $0.08 earnedHomo Naledi - Ancient Human
3132 -
30:36
NORTH02
2 years ago $0.02 earnedHow many species of Human were there?
66 -
0:45
Heretic000
9 months agoDid Hobbits inhabit Earth? #shorts #funfacts
19