dragon man

plural dragon men

1. alternativeAlternative form of Dragon Man.

1. The archaic human species Homo longi, popularly known as the Denisovans.

   Yet dragon man is stirring debate, with some experts suggesting it could be a Denisovan, a mysterious Neanderthal sister group represented by scant fossils.

   2021 November, Maya Wei-Haas, “Who was ‘Dragon Man’?”, in National Geographic, volume 240, number 5, page 22

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   Today, the skull is finally coming out of hiding, and it has a new name: Dragon Man, the newest member of the human family, who lived more than 146,000 years ago.

   2021 June 25, Ann Gibson, “Stunning ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be an elusive Denisovan—or a new species of human”, in Science

   The Harbin specimen, nicknamed ‘Dragon Man’, is a very large cranium that appears facially closer to H. sapiens, but has an elongated braincase more similar to H. heidelbergensis

   2022, Luíseach Nic Eoin, “New Asian hominin”, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, volume 6, number 18, →DOI, page 18

   Some researchers assigned the skull a new species name, Homo longi (“dragon man”) and argued that it is a sister species of H. sapiens (Ji et al., 2021)

   2023, John H. Langdon, “Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans”, in Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes, Springer, Cham, →ISBN

plural Dragon men

1. alternativeAlternative form of dragon man.