Meet the new face, and braincase to boot, of Asia’s mysterious Stone Age denizens, the Denisovans.
The nearly complete, roughly 146,000-year-old skull of an adult male was found nearly a century ago, possibly during bridge construction in Harbin, China. An earlier study claimed that the Harbin skull, nicknamed Dragon Man, represented a new species called Homo longi. Two new studies now argue it is, instead, the first-ever skull from a Denisovan population — although scientists not involved in the new investigations disagree on whether enough evidence exists to confirm Dragon Man’s evolutionary identity.
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