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Dragon man sheds light on evolution By HOU LIQIANG in Beijing and ZHANG YU in Shijiazhuang | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-06-28 08:55 Share An artist s rendering of the dragon man . CHUANG ZHAO/AFP The world has taken a critical step toward figuring out the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens, the species all living humans belong to, with Chinese researchers announcing the discovery of a new species of ancient human they have dubbed dragon man . More closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals, the species researchers officially named Homo longi sp nov may lead to a rethinking of human evolution. The announcement was made based on the results of research on a skull that is at least 138,000 years old. It was reportedly unearthed in 1933 when a bridge was built over the Songhua River in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The city was under Japanese occupation at the time, and the man who found the skull concealed it at t

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