From being a hominid discovered in the Chinese province ofHeilongjiang(“黑龍江”). FromChinese黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng, literally “Black Dragon River”).
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- The archaic human speciesHomo longi.
2021 June 25, Ann Gibson, “Stunning ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be an elusive Denisovan—or a new species of human”, inScience[1]:Today, the skull is finally coming out of hiding, and it has a new name:Dragon Man, the newest member of the human family, who lived more than 146,000 years ago.
2021 November, Maya Wei-Haas, “Who was ‘Dragon Man’?”, inNational Geographic, volume240, number 5, page22:Yetdragon man is stirring debate, with some experts suggesting it could be a Denisovan, a mysterious Neanderthal sister group represented by scant fossils.
2022, Luíseach Nic Eoin, “New Asian hominin”, inNature Ecology & Evolution, volume 6, number18,→DOI, page18:The Harbin specimen, nicknamed ‘Dragon Man’, is a very large cranium that appears facially closer toH. sapiens, but has an elongated braincase more similar toH. heidelbergensis
2023, John H. Langdon, “Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans”, inHuman Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes, Springer, Cham,→ISBN:Some researchers assigned the skull a new species name,Homo longi (“dragon man”) and argued that it is a sister species ofH. sapiens (Ji et al., 2021)
