Mon. 06/28 - A New Extinct Human Species? The Giant Skull Everyone's Talking About

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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As promised on Friday, more information on the so-called Dragon Man––the recently unveiled 140,000-year-old skull that may be a new species of extinct human. The science behind why all your in-person coffee dates since reopening have been so awkward. And a first-of-its-kind study puts a number on the nonbinary population in the US. Links: Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree (NY Times) Move Over Neanderthals, Newly Discovered ‘Dragon Man’ Might Be Our True Sister Species (Gizmodo) Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution (The Guardian) Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery (BBC) Science 'Dragon Man' skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree Hidden down a (National Geographic) The neuroscience behind why your brain may need time to adjust to 'un-social distancing' (The Conversation) The first population estimate of LGBTQ non-binary adults in the US is out. Here's why that's significant. (Washington Post) Groundbreaking Study Finds Over One Million Nonbinary Adults Live in the U.S. (them.) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cotkey ride home for monday, June 28th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.1	As promised on Friday, more information on the so-called Dragon Man, the recently unveiled
0:49.1	140,000-year-old skull that may be a new species of extinct human.
0:56.4	The science behind why all of your in-person coffee dates since reopening have been so
1:02.3	awkward, and a first-of-its-kind study puts a number on the non-binary population in the U.S.
1:09.7	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:15.5	An enormous ancient skull unveiled in China
1:19.8	could be evidence of an entirely new species of extinct human.
1:24.9	Commonly called the Harbin skull based on where it was found and nicknamed
1:28.3	Dragon Man. Some are calling the new species Homo Longhi. Longhi comes from the Chinese word
1:34.5	long, which means dragon. It's not just that this skull could change a lot of what we know
1:40.3	about human lineage, but it also could have changed all of that nearly a century ago.
1:45.9	That's because this skull was actually found in 1933 by a worker on a bridge construction site
1:52.2	near Harbin and Northern China. He then hid the skull in a well and didn't tell anyone about it
1:59.1	until he was on his deathbed in 2018, when he shared
2:02.6	the information with his family, who then went on to donate it to the Geoscience Museum of
2:06.9	Hebei-Geo University.
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