Enigmatic ‘dragon man’ was not a new human species, but a Denisovan

Enigmatic ‘dragon man’ was not a new human species, but a Denisovan

After 146,000 years and a far-fetched history, a team led by Chinese scientists and a Swedish Nobel Prize winner in medicine announced Wednesday that it has successfully recovered DNA from a fossil assigned to a new human species, Homo longi, popularly known as the “dragon man.” This exceptional breakthrough overturns one of the last major discoveries in human evolution: it turns out that Homo longi is not a new human species native to Asia, but a Denisovan.

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