Dragon Man

See also: dragon man, Dragon man, dragonman, and Dragonman

English

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”).

Proper noun

Dragon Man

  1. The archaic human species Homo longi.
    • 2021 June 25, Ann Gibson, “Stunning ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be an elusive Denisovan—or a new species of human”, in Science‎:
    • 2021 November, Wei-Haas, Maya, “Who was ‘Dragon Man’?”, in National Geographic, volume 240, number 5, page 22:
    • 2022, Luíseach Nic Eoin, “New Asian hominin”, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, volume 6, number 18, →DOI, page 18:
    • 2023, John H. Langdon, “Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans”, in Human 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 of H. sapiens (Ji et al., 2021)

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