Dragon Man en · PROPN
Etymology
From being a hominid discovered in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang (“黑龍江”). From Chinese 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng, literally “Black Dragon River”).
Meanings
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The archaic human species Homo longi, popularly known as the Denisovans.
The Harbin specimen, nicknamed ‘Dragon Man’, is a very large cranium that appears facially closer to H. sapiens, but has an elongated braincase more similar to H. heidelbergensis
2022, Luíseach Nic Eoin, “New Asian hominin”, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, volume 6, number 18, →DOI, page 18: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 June 25, Ann Gibson, “Stunning ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be an elusive Denisovan—or a new species of human”, in Science:Some researchers assigned the skull a new species name, Homo longi (“dragon man”) and argued that it is a sister species of H. sapiens (Ji et al., 2021)
2023, John H. Langdon, “Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans”, in Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes, Springer, Cham, →ISBN:Yet dragon man is stirring debate, with some experts suggesting it could be a Denisovan, a mysterious Neanderthal sister group represented by scant fossils.
2021 November, Maya Wei-Haas, “Who was ‘Dragon Man’?”, in National Geographic, volume 240, number 5, page 22: