Scientists had made a big disclosure on Friday about the human race. Scientists say that the skull found in northeast China may also be of a new species. Scientists have named it Homo longi or Dragon Man. It has been claimed that its lineage may displace Neanderthals from the rank of close relatives of modern humans.
It is said that this skull was discovered 85 years ago but it has been rediscovered in the year 2018. The Harbin cranium was discovered in the 1930s in a city in Heilogjiang province. But it is said that it was hidden in a well to protect it from a Japanese army. Here this skull remained buried for 85 years.
Ancestors of Mankind
After this, in 2018 it was taken out and handed over to Professor Ji Qiang of Bebei Jiao University. The study’s co-author and Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum London said the analysis showed that the Harbin group is more closely related to Homo sapiens than to Neanderthals. This means that Harbin is a closer descendant of modern humans and not Neanderthals. He said that if it gets the status of a separate species, then these will be our closest relatives.
The study was published as three papers in The Innovation Journal. This skull is at least 1.46 lakh years old. The brain found in it used to be the size of a human. But the pit of its eyes was more, the size of the eyebrows was wider, the mouth was bigger and the teeth were bigger.
Skulls
The name of this skull is derived from Long Jiang, which means dragon river. Researchers believe that the cranium skull is that of a male human, who would have been about 50 years old and may have lived in the wooded plains of the flooded area.
Stringer says that the population at that time may have been hunter-gatherers who lived on land. Looking at today’s winter temperatures in Harbin, it seems that this human species had to endure colder than Neanderthals. It is being told that these Homo longi were spread all over Asia and lived in a very difficult environment.
The researchers first studied the external shape of the cranium based on more than 600 properties and then ran millions of simulations in computer models to build a family tree of its relationships with other fossils. Researchers say that if Homo sapiens reached East Asia when Homo longi was present there, they may have mixed among themselves, although it is still unclear.