But Neanderthals and Denisovans were genetically closer to each other than to Sapiens, while the new study suggests Homo longi were more anatomically similar to us than Neanderthals.

I come forward now on behalf of the Dragon Skull Conclave, I am a green moss agate skull and my name is Raffuon. The researchers estimated Dragon Man’s evolutionary status using statistical comparisons to other Middle Pleistocene Homo fossils from Africa, Asia and Europe. These comparisons indicated that H. longi shared a common ancestor with H. sapiens around 949,000 years ago, while the common ancestor of Neandertals and H. sapiens dated to just over 1 million years ago. If so, then H. longi had a slightly closer evolutionary relationship to H. sapiens than Neandertals did. In two simultaneously published papers, Ji and colleagues declared the Harbin skull to represent a new species they dubbed Homo longi. The Harbin skull is quite similar to the Dali skull, and when the Dali skull was discovered in 1978, it was given a new nomen H. sapiens daliensis by its discoverer Wu Xinzhi who soon thereafter abandoned the name. Consequently, should the Middle Pleistocene Asian humans represent a single unique species, the nomen H. daliensis would take priority. Though they recommended resurrecting H. daliensis, they argued H. longi is sufficiently distinct, and allocated only the Dali and Hualong remains (often allocated to H. heidelbergensis by convention) to H. daliensis; thus, they claim at least two human species inhabited late Middle Pleistocene China. [2] One of the authors, Chris Stringer, stated that he would have preferred assigning the Harbin skull to H. daliensis. [6]

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We Dragons wish to help you transform out of fear consciousness and to assist others in moving out of fear consciousness also. Ji persuaded the family to donate the specimen to the Geoscience Museum of Hebei GEO University, and the team got to work. They accrued information from 95 fossil crania, jawbones, and teeth representing a range of hominin groups, characterizing more than 600 features. They then used a supercomputer to construct billions of phylogenetic trees, tools used to illuminate the evolutionary relationships between hominins, with the fewest evolutionary steps, which most scientists agree is the most likely possibility. The tree that sprouted placed the Harbin skull on a new branch that is closely related to our own species.

It’s distinctive enough to be a different species,” said Christopher Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London and co-author of two of the three Dragon Man papers. This skull, known as the Harbin cranium, has added fuel to those discussions. It was reportedly discovered in 1933 when a bridge was built over the Songhua River in northeast China's Harbin City, having been buried in sediment for thousands of years. It was reanalysed by Chris, Ji and the team. Yet the proposed grouping and species designation is stirring debate among scientists. Some experts see tantalizing hints that the Dragon Man may have ties to the mysterious Denisovans, a sister group of the Neanderthals for which scant fossil remains have been found—a few teeth, a fractured piece of skull, a pinky bone, and perhaps a broken jaw.We are primarily at this time focusing on activating the pineal glands of humanity, for this gland is like your radar for higher consciousness yet it is affected by calcification from toxins and poisons such as fluoride that you have within your diet and also by EMF’s from television screens and computers. a b c d e f Ji, Qiang; Wu, Wensheng; Ji, Yannan; Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun (2021-06-25). "Late Middle Pleistocene Harbin cranium represents a new Homo species". The Innovation. 2 (3): 100132. Bibcode: 2021Innov...200132J. doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100132. ISSN 2666-6758. PMC 8454552. PMID 34557772. The Dragon Skulls are preparing you for the work that you are to perform as a lightworker to assist Gaia and your own soul growth at this time.

These suggest that Harbin and some other fossils from China form a third lineage of later humans alongside the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens,” explained Stringer. More evidence may be on the horizon. The team involved in the new papers is exploring the possibility of genetic analyses for the Dragon Man, Ni says. But they are proceeding with caution because such work requires destroying small samples of the fossil. Still, the skull underscores how tangled the branches are in the human family tree, and how studying the full array of enigmatic human ancestors and their shifting distribution through time could help us decipher our own origins. A nearly complete male skull now housed in the Geoscience Museum of Hebei GEO University in Shijiazhuang, China, represents a species dubbed Homo longi by Hebei GEO paleoanthropologist Xijun Ni and his colleagues. The scientists describe the skull, which dates to at least 146,000 years ago, and analyze its position in Homo evolution in three papers published June 25 in The Innovation.

Direct uranium–thorium dating of various points on the skull yielded a wide range of dates, from 296 to 62 thousand years ago, likely a result of uranium leaching. They statistically determined the most likely minimum age is 146,000 years old, but a more exact value is difficult to determine, given that the exact provenance is unidentifiable. Nonetheless, the skull is well-constrained to the late Middle Pleistocene, roughly contemporaneous with other Chinese specimens from Xiahe, Jinniushan, Dali, and Hualong Cave. [3] Classification [ edit ] Recent human family tree Ni and colleagues believed the Harbin skull represents a male, judging by the robustness and size of the skull, who was less than 50 years old, looking at the suture closures and the degree of tooth wearing. They speculated H. longi had perhaps medium-dark to medium-light skin, dark hair, and dark eye color based on reconstructed genetic sequences from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early modern humans. [1] Pathology [ edit ] Although the researchers are leaning toward this being a basal human, it’s much more interesting—to me, at least—to think that this could be a Denisovan. We won’t know that for sure until—and if—they can get genomic data from the skull. But until now, there’s been no face to put to the Denisovans—so far, the only skeletal materials we’ve discovered that are definitely Denisovan are a tooth and the little tip of a pinky finger—and potentially the Xiahe mandible.

Keep reading list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Researchers find ‘new type of early human’ near Israel’s Ramla list 2 of 3 A mammoth discovery: Giant remains found near Mexico City list 3 of 3 World’s oldest DNA sequenced from million-year-old mammoths end of list Looking at this transitional period of Middle Pleistocene humans, which Dragon Man falls into, can give us a better idea of when we evolved the cranial traits that we associate with our becoming Homo sapiens, and also how much regional variation plays a role in the differences we see in the fossil record. We had early humans living in very different ecologies in very different parts of the world during the Middle Pleistocene, which can produce different superficial features, just like we see in contemporary human populations today. You say that Homo erectus, long thought to be a different, earlier species of human ancestor, might even be an example of an early human instead of a different species. From an archaeologist’s perspective, where does one species end and another species begin? The team's full database and detailed images of the Dragon Man are now publicly available, Stringer says, so other researchers can plumb the hominin’s depths themselves. Many seem eager to do so. Researchers first studied the cranium, identifying more than 600 traits they fed into a computer model that ran millions of simulations to determine the evolutionary history and relationships between different species. Ni says the team compared 600 different morphological characteristics of the skull across a selection of some 95 varied human skulls and mandibles. They used a set of mathematical techniques on all this data to create branching diagrams that sketch out the phylogenic relations of the different Homo species.

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This, he said, would make Dragon Man our “sister species” and a closer ancestor of modern man than the Neanderthals. This workshop lead by Dragon Communicator Alphedia Arara introduces you to working with the Crystalline Dragon Skulls. It's a spectacular fossil," says María Martinón-Torres, the director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, who was not involved in the suite of papers. Yet not all the scientists and outside experts agree that Dragon Man is a separate species—nor do they agree about its relative position on the hominin family tree.