Elusive Denisovan Skulls Found in China?

Since their discovery, the Denisovans, related to Homo Longi aka Dragon Man and Neanderthals, have been known only from bits of DNA, taken from a sliver of bone in the Denisova Cave in Altai Mountains of Siberia Russia. Now, two partial skulls from eastern China are emerging as prime candidates for showing what these shadowy people may have looked like. Two reconstructed 100,000-year-old skulls and a 300,000 year old skull from China reveal a complex mix of trends that have been described as neanderthal-like, but also having some modern traits. In the opinion of many researchers these skulls as in fact Denisovans, but Chinese anthropologists want to classify the skulls as a new species. Disagreement and Caveman Politics in anthropology is nothing new. But to some experts, the Denisovans fit this description: They are roughly dated to approximately 500 to 100,000 years ago, and their DNA shows that after hundreds of thousands of years of isolation, they mixed both with Neandertals and early
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