Ancient Chinese Skull Offering Clues to Dragon Man Lineage

The plot thickens in the saga of our evolution.

A reconstruction of an ancient Chinese skull may tie the Dragon Man lineage even closer to Homo sapiens.

Scientists have revealed potential ties between Denisovans, Dragon Man, and Yunxian Man lines.

Potential links between the archaic humans and Homo Sapiens are still a source of intrigue.

Using new technology, the team restored and reconstructed the cranium, and the results suggested that whoever this skull used to belong to was “an early member of the Asian ‘Dragon Man’ lineage, which probably includes the Denisovans, and is the sister group of the H. sapiens lineage.”

The team said that both the H. sapiens and Dragon Man lineages having deep roots extending beyond the Middle Pleistocene age, and the Yunxian fossil cranium “suggests it represents a population lying close to the last common ancestor of the two lineages.”