Human Evolution: Dragon Man
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Homo longi, also known as Dragon Man, is an extinct archaic human species - with a nearly complete skull found near Harbin, China, dating back to at least 146,000 years ago. Discovered in 1933 during the construction of the Dongjiang Bridge, it remained hidden until 2018 due to wartime circumstances and tensions. But why was the discovery of a single skull so important? And what does it tell us about human evolution and migration during the Middle Pleistocene?
In this episode, Dr Chris Stringer returns to the podcast to help shed light on the importance of this discovery, and explain how the Dragon Man could be our closest human relative. Looking at how the Dragon Man was discovered, what he tells us about Human Migration, and the impact it had on paleoanthropology - do we know who the Dragon Man was, and what does he tell us about our Human relatives from nearly 200,000 years ago?
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| 1:38.6 | episode where we're talking about human evolution once again and this time the largest human skull ever discovered. |
| 1:47.0 | It's popularly known today as Dragon Man discovered in China on the eve of the Second World War. |
| 1:55.0 | This is a fossil that still has a lot of mystery surrounding it. |
| 1:59.4 | Could it be a new species of extinct human. |
| 2:04.7 | Could this actually be our closest human relative? |
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