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A Brazilian anthropologist has reconstructed the face of the archaic human species Homo longi from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. Homo longi is an extinct species of the genus Homo that lived in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene.
Nicknamed Dragon man, the species was identified from a nearly complete skull dated to 148,000 years ago.
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/homo-longi-face-12609.html
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Homo longi is phylogenetically closer to Homo sapiens than to Neanderthals or other archaic humans, according to new research described in The Innovation.
A well-preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium was reportedly discovered when a bridge was built over the Songhua River in Harbin City, the Heilongjiang province, China.
Because of its unsystematic recovery and the long time interval, information about the exact site and fossil layer was lost.
“The Harbin fossil is one of the most complete human cranial fossils in the world,” said Professor Qiang Ji, a paleontologist at Hebei GEO University.
“It preserved many morphological details that are critical for understanding the evolution of the Homo genus and the origin of Homo sapiens"...
