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Humans, all alone

Recently, a near-perfectly preserved fossil of a skull was identified as that of a newly discovered human-like species Homo longi or "Dragon Man"

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Kumar Abishek New Delhi
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” This famous quote is often misattributed to “father of evolution” Charles Darwin and his 1859 book On the Origin of Species but its essence is true, nonetheless.

Recently, a near-perfectly preserved fossil of a skull — that sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University — was identified as that of a newly discovered human-like species Homo longi or “Dragon Man”.

The findings, published in The Innovation, suggested the Homo longi lineage —
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