[HN Gopher] 'Dragon Man' may be an elusive Denisovan
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       'Dragon Man' may be an elusive Denisovan
        
       Author : etiam
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-07-02 20:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
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       |  _'Dragon Man' skull may be new species, shaking up human family
       | tree_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638218 - June 2021
       | (118 comments)
        
       | teruakohatu wrote:
       | > For now, the paper authors say they do not want to risk
       | destroying the tooth or other bone to get DNA or protein.
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       | Yes it might mean their claims of being a new species could be
       | invalidated, but it would be far more exciting if a Denisovan had
       | been finally found.
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       | Another paper published recently looks at Denisovan DNA in
       | populations of South East Asian Island populations.
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       | http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/southeast...
        
       | anm89 wrote:
       | Or he was a Trogdoooooooooorrrrrr
        
         | ggm wrote:
         | Came for the burninator was not disappointed
        
       | mc32 wrote:
       | One bit of confusion for me was the dragon part of the name.
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       | Peking man was discovered near 'dragon bone hill' (Longgushan)
       | back in 1921 in Zhoukoudian, but this Dragon man was discovered
       | in 1933 in Heilongjiang, and hence the name "Dragon man" (the
       | 'long' (Long ) part of the place name meaning dragon). Lots of
       | place names contain dragon this or that in China. These two
       | specimens are not contemporary but separated by at least a 100
       | thousand years.
        
       | sxyuan wrote:
       | For those without access to the full text, here's a related news
       | article on Science with a bit more context:
       | https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/stunning-dragon-man-...
        
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