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That could be our closest evolutionary relative. if confirmed, dragon man, as he s been nicknamed, would displace the neanderthals as our sister species. 0ur science correspondent, pallab ghosh, has the full details. meet the dragon man, a perfectly preserved skull found in the black dragon river province in northeastern china. he s thought to be a new species human that lived 146,000 years ago. a 3d scan shows a huge head and a brain that was about the same size as ours, but other features, such as a prominent brow ridge, suggest something more primitive. i said, my gosh, you cannot believe that. it is so well preserved you can see all the details. this is what researchers think he looked like, stocky and powerfully built. where does dragon man fit into the new human family tree? ....