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‘DRAGON MAN’ MAY HAVE BEEN HUMANS’ CLOSEST RELATIVE

A newly identified species of ancient hominin may be the closest relative to modern humans ever discovered, a team of international researchers has claimed.

Named , or ‘Dragon Man’, the new species was identified from a near-perfectly preserved fossil known as the Harbin cranium, which was unearthed in Harbin City in northeastern China in the 1930s. The

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