This 1,46,000-year-old ‘Dragon Man’ skull changes what we know about human evolution
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- #PureScience
Scientists have announced the discovery of the ‘Dragon Man’ skull or the harbin cranium, a well preserved fossil dating back to at least 1,46,000 years, with a curious mix of ancient and modern human features. In #PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings, how they were made, what the skull changes about human evolutionary history, and what further mysteries it poses.
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Supplementary reading:
‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree www.nationalge...
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Late Middle Pleistocene Harbin cranium represents a new Homo species www.cell.com/t...
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Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage www.cell.com/t...
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Geochemical provenancing and direct dating of the Harbin archaic human cranium www.cell.com/t...
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The story of a very special 90,000-year-old girl theprint.in/sc...
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This title/headline changes what we know about counting and math.
Hopefully it also introduces the Indian numbering system's use of separators! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of_separators
Yes I was baffled also , ah
@@sandygrains your speaking English. All references should also be.
Great host. Short, clear and no drama added. Kudos! Thank you!
Show her your homo erectus.
She talks leary and directly to the points. I wish others would learn from her. 👍🌹
she wave her hand around in pointless gestures
Yes!
@@dreamdiction thats common in india , people consider it as expressive way of talking
@@dhairyshrivastava988 Indians only act like drama queens on videos, not in real life. It doesn't matter which country you come from, pointless gestures is the way little people try to make themselves look bigger.
@@dreamdiction well i dont know how u percieve but its common around here , and noone tends to notice it like the head wobble
The graphical recreation of the dragon man Looks a lot like my manager.
Is your manager Esfand
Sounds like he doesn’t have to deal with karens
yo mama
His employee is a racist
@@kirkir70 employer*?
Best video I've been able to find on this by far, and i could listen to her talk to me about science all day
Wow this has to be the most descriptive well presented video on this fossil compared to other video ive seen. Great work ive learned a lot watching this
This is so accessible and so engaging. GREAT presentation.
I wait ten years because most of history by science gets better after criticism
DNA gives a much more accurate evaluation than visual/dimensional examining fossils. Advancements in DNA science and testing equipment and protocols have been a windfall in anthropology.
Very detailed explanation of this recent find. The news reporter is very cute. 😊
Yes, very nice facial feature proportions. More beauty than cute, though, I think. And that is a good thing because 'cute' doesn't always age well, (look at Macaulay Culkin) but beauty can endure, can even become greater as it matures. This young lady will still be a looker even when she starts to get wrinkles.
I'm an artist, studied proportion, did some fine portrait drawings. The relationship of her facial features to each other are so perfect I think God was playing artist when he designed her. Scarlet Johanson is my Numero Uno.
Be well my fellow aficionado of classical beauty.
Just found your channel today! Thank you for doing this video. It is much appreciated.
I am something of a lumper, and think “Dragon Man”” looks like a H. heidelbergensis.
I totally agree with you. The Denisovans Best fits the new Dragon man skull.
5:02 You upload a video with a quality of 720, how can we read those blur data?
Brilliant and clear.. one thousand likes.
Science journalism at its best.
Great Work! Kudos!
Great presentation, all videos that I've watched in one
thanks for concise and informative segment
The archeological scientific community is very divided about if this is a new unknown species. Many believe it’s a skull of the known denisovians. It’s interesting to see which reports reveal that division and which ones totally obfuscate it.
the one denisovian tooth dna tested, is 50% larger then human, this fits that size.
Thanks for the informational video Sandhya mam
Thank you for this presentation. It was full of imporant details!
Excellent presentation! Thank you.
I follow PureScience segment, the quality of presentation is great. Science journalism at its best.
Great Work!!!!
Hi Dhanush, thank you for writing in and do keep following #PureScience
@@ThePrintIndia 5:02 You upload a video with a quality of 720, 9:25 how can we read those blur data?
@@madeinchina1450 you are Chinese sister?
@@drmanmohansingh511 I am so disappointed that Indians can't even make a clear video. 5:02, ... 9:25, can you read what she showed on the video? poor quality job.
@@madeinchina1450 If it's poor in quality , then watch your news channels . What are you doing here then? Or Chinese don't try to make this kind of informative videos . Another made in china product which proved useless.
Awesome, Enjoy all your informative video's Very easy on the eyes also
Definitely exciting!
Just came back here to see if people are still simping in the comments. Alright, still simping. Thanks
great great simply great thamks u sandhya
A really informative video!
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. Many thanks for the links to the papers.
Why doesn't anyone ask why he waited 85 years to tell us about the skull when he could have told us about it at the wars end in 1945 77 years ago. He did a tremendous disservice to science.
Very well done! I learned a lot, thank you.
This video is excellent. Educational with a good story teller to explain. 👍
Is it just me or are some of those ancestry chart/ map blurred?
Just a min or two before Sandhya Ramesh Mentioned everything is a mess is actually when every comparison between Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, Dali man and dragon man & others is actually when the confusion started.
homo sapiens ?
why we don't have mamont-sapiens ? and why mamonts couldn't evolve in such a level to able to speak ? why only apse ?
and why apes cannot evolve right now you ? why they cant speak ? and you cant even help them to give them ability to speak; if you will make experiments on them maybe you will be able to change them but you won't be able to give them a speech ability ;
and yet you are mumbling about neanderthals ;; that's all made in TV/Internet ... not in reality ...
not even one ape can evolve and change his own kind and became a flying bird ...
that's a nonsense and moronism you evolutionist's believe :D
once bird was ape and became bird :D how moron you must be a to believe such a garbage ? and yet in this days not even one ape cant evolve :D still they are apes
you think you are modern man and yet believe this garbage ?
my country is somewhere 3300 years old ... and for sure in those times there were apes ; and we don't see any apes could evolve in those years ...
and yet you mumbling and believe this garbage :D
Wow 😮 I love your explanation of all these details although science is not my favourite 👏👏👏👏👏 Bravo 👏
Thank you! Great explanation of the discovery and its place in the paleo anthropology puzzle.
Terrible explanation. Totally false!
Great summary.
Thank you for your post
Similar phenotypes could come about separately. Because a skull has a flat face doesn't necessarily mean that phenotype comes from a common ancestor with homo sapiens. Two human species under similar environmental pressures could produce the same bodily changes.
Do you mean like convergent evolution?
@@budd2nd yeet
@@jackwellington8275
Huh??
look up Jeffrey Schwartz on Orangutans
this is the best description onu tube
very detailed explanation. thanks
1,46,000 years old? I'll never understand the metric system.
Its not metric system. In South Asia they use laks n crores instead of millions and billions
lol
100, 000 is known as lakh in India and 10,000,000 as crore.
Approximately 1,5 years ago...slightly less
Indians read it as 1 Lak, 46 thousand years ..a _Lak_ being 100,000 ...so one million would be the same as _ten Lak_
Your graphic at 5:30 is of very low resolution and it's too bad because that is a critical graphic to understand this whole video.
Great rundown! Very informative.
1,46,000
Spell checking on the title is rather important
One of the better presentations on the Dragon Man find. Thanks.
It can be assumed that the dating is in the last quarter of the Dvapara Yuga.
"While King Pururavas indulged in meditation, Treta-yuga came, and the laws of the three Vedas were revealed to him in his heart" (Srimad Bhagavatam 9,14, vol. 43).
After Treta-yuga comes Dvapara-yuga, which lasts 864,000 years.
Kali-yuga began after the departure of Sri Krishna according to the large version, according to the working version, after the meeting of Parikshit with Kali.
It is possible that the "Dragon Man" or Harbin Krunium, which lived 146,000 years ago,
appeared in the interval between the period of Puru which was after Yayati, until the time of Bharata (Bharata varsa).
That's awesome! Can't wait to find out the blood type. Thanks for keeping us up to date.
Thank you, awesome break down! New subscriber here. 😁
Great presentation!
As a paleoanthropology student, I'd be precise with my mentioning of the earlier Homo species as "Archaic" Humans and not just Humans. Thanks 😊
What do you mean by "humans are not just humans"? Legit question. I'm not trying to be a smartass or anything like that. Just curious 😊
Edit. I didn't see your whole comment first. My phone is cracked
Also she made it sound like physical techniques were going to be discarded. But they still need to use physical characteristics to classify since DNA degrades quickly and the very old specimens of hominins are millions of years old. I think the oldest DNA harvested is 800,000 ya?
@@heavymeddle28 Im guessing he means it’s too general a term. There are extinct human species like homo erectus that are still classified as (archaic) humans. We are “modern humans”. We all fall under the current scientific term “hominin”
Whats the official criteria for archaic?
After seeing the jewelry the denisovians created, im not sure they were less intelligent, or capable. Survival isnt always the arbiter of advancement.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf yea I'm no biologist or anything like that but I'm pretty sure that nature don't give a damn about intelligence. Only survival
I can't concentrate on the info. She's so cute 😊
Agreed, an attractive mix of Asian and Caucasian features common in some South Asian populations.
@@JM-nm3bg yea idk what she is. I live in Thailand and she could pass for phillipino but her accent sounds very Indian. But I'm no expert. Just what I think. I know everyone is different but I think she has this perfect face. Not like a model. Just... Cute and beautiful 😊
@@heavymeddle28 she is indian , given in description
Totally. Hard to find girls who are into smrt stuff too
@@paul6925 high end, save your money, buy a good one.
Ramesh has her act together. Bravo.
146,000*
Please do an episode on Grecopithecus thank you
Because we only have the one skull as an example, could the large size of it be an individual case of gigantism. I would imagine that if we had discovered the skull of Andre "the giant", we might assume that it was representative of a unique species, when, in fact, it would have only been a genetic anomaly.
Thanks for the explaination
That was a very impressive overview of the hominin research.
Great understanding
SO BEAUTIFUL
Well said. Tq.
I agree with other comments - very good presentation - devoid of needless hype (the subject is exciting enough on its own).
The number 1,46,000 changes what I know about math. What's up with your title?
This is cuz of indian number system
Probably a denisovan
I d like to make a wild guess!
these is the branch that gave rise to the unlnown hapla group that gave rise to the tribes of the Yamnaya, the mutations that would lead to the Germanic peoples of Europe.
Good work!
Great explanation!
Hats off madam!
Mr Stalin?
Mr. Stalin and Dr. Singh? You both are here?
@@augustuscaesar6541 yes , sir
@@augustuscaesar6541 yup!ncommenting from soviet union(1942).
@@JosephStalin-io5fp How are things going on? Do you think you can hold onto Stalingrad? I heard it’s pretty bloody there.
What is a skallld?
We won't know how this fits with human evolution until we get some DNA or protein data. We will have to wait to see if this is possible for this particular fossil. Hopefully more fossils will soon be found in that region and we will be able to get more information. It is always fun to speculate, is this a new species? Is this our closest ancestor? and so on, but what is needed is more science, more examples, more data.
Some say that 10,000 years here and some 10,000 there is not enough time to differentiate a new species. I tell them "What is the difference between Sapient now, and the first Sapient. 75,000 years ago Sapient landed in Australia. There is not much archeology so far, but one thing I do know is "what was the population of these tribal creatures"? In the Lake Toba era,there is an estimation of several thousands of Sapient, and it is a lucky thing that we did not become extinct.
What a voice ❤️
When will anthropology develop in india?
...she blinded me with SCIENCE!
With the size of the Denisovan skull, they must have been huge!!
Has Dragon man's DNA been compared to Denisovan DNA?
That's what I was thinking a hybrid or Denisovan.
Your title date is off by 10 times
There are still many links left to discover in the human story because eventhough they say dragon man is our closest known relative, it is still way way different than we are. Who knows if we will ever know the real lineage.
What would be the height of dragon man?
As a South Indian I can say that the facial features of our people is an average look of Dragon Man and Denisovan, but more of Dragon Man. Looks like the theory of out of Africa and passing through South India into Asia is wrong.
Three skulls missing but found in the family tree,stored by Rockefeller center,not for public viewing and the smithodian institute has the other skulls for storage.
When it comes to science, you should follow the international notation and unit system.
Agree, needs competent editing otherwise content will be questioned.
1,46,000 ? How old is that? Apart from that a good video well presented and informative. Thanks
Well there will always be a new one popping up.
how long until they announce the DNA findings?
It is rumored he is still alive living in Austin, Texas. Grand Marshal Scarab Lord Leader of Over The Knee Esfand
@@van7915 the brow ridge just gives him away in a crowd.
The link is still yet to find.
It Fred flintstone’s friend, Barney ruble
My eyebrows were raised 🐉💀
A much larger brain means Dragon Man was more brilliant than Einstein.
Not really. An elephant’s brain is 3 to 4 times the size of a human’s brain, but you cannot say that an elephant is smarter than a human. An individual’s intelligence depends on brain structure, not on size. Further, intelligence is species-dependent - just as the Dragon man will have difficulty surviving in Einstein’s environment, Einstein will have trouble surviving in Dragon Man’s.
thats not how it works
Yeah, no.
@@promodpratap2696 Of course there is a relationship between brain size (compared to its body) and intelligence. Just google brain size by IQ you can find so many scientific researches, which confirmed the fact, for example, [[[ humans have a relative brain-to-body mass of about 2 per cent. What about the big mammals-elephants, dolphins and whales? Their brains far outweigh those of puny humans, up to 10 kilograms for some whales. Given their body mass, ranging from 7,000 kg (for male African elephants) up to 180,000 kg (for blue whales), their brain-to-body ratio is under a tenth of a per cent. ]]]
Source: Scientific American
@@promodpratap2696 Why did you pick up Einstein? There are reports that some boys and girls in India who have higher IQ than that of Einstein's, but that does not necessary mean those Indian kids will make discover even bigger than Einstein.
Want more info
The biggest question is with the missing/unknown majority of DNA that we now have? My suspicions are that some of it is with the hordes and hidden skeletons in the basements of museums.
It's funny how they gave him a "beard." I would think the hair would come up much closer to the edge of the orbital.
u explain a confusing topic beautifully. dna will help to clarify..if homo sapien comes from longi or out of africa. or out from everywhere....
We are all cousin's and all mixed. That's why racism is so stupid epigenetics is a small part of dna. The deeper dna shows many variations and mixed heritage. outward appearance of a population can be varied and change in less than a hundred generations and .
a kangaroo a rabbit and a hare took same route and ended up with morphological similarly. And any population can in their variations go in many directions due to non mixing due to mixing or due to mutation or also which is underestimated novelty factor in sexual attraction . The human journey is amazing and all peoples of the world are special and all have something in common
We all came from Adam & Eve originally
@@dned23 Fossils? Fossils ?& more fossils……………....?? For Fossil Sake get with reality please
Excellent presentation. :)
The only thing I found a little sketchy was the provenance. They kept it down a well for decades? Really‽
My only question is is this an offshoot of a denisovan or a hybrid? 🤔🤔
"In Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Lord Krishna tells the Ganga devi that 5000 years after the advent of Kali Yuga, a special period will begin - the Golden Age of Kali, which will last 10,000 years."
The Golden Age is the Age of Truth. Oddly enough this sounds, but it began with the great truth that occurred in Delhi.
The head of state, Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi, opened the world's largest Bhagavad-gita on February 26, 2019.
From this moment, the Golden Age reference point can be called.
We are at the beginning of this path, and what it will be, largely depends on us.
Kali-yuga began in 3102 BC, therefore, to date, 5121 years have passed from its beginning. The transition period was 120 years.
Why does the rest of the world have a hard time with number commas?
100,00,0,000000000
What?
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
I don't understand... oh it's metric... lmao
Why calculator put's comma after 3 digit?
Answer
In day to day activities we use numbers up to 2/3 digital or 5/6 digits at Max. So we can easily count and tell what it the value. For an example:
1203 = One Thousand Two hundred and three
23528 = Twenty Three Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Eight
But things become very complicated when we talk about a larger number. Let's see an example:
363728832 or
6372838272737
Can you see and tell me how much is it?
Instantly you can't! Because you need time to count it…
And in accounting specially in case of preparing large financial analysis it is extremely difficult to guess the number or make an approximate valuation of it just by looking at it… so the concept of comma ',' came.
Now look at the same problem again (this time I will be putting comma ',' after every 3 digits from the 1st place…
363,728,832
6,372,838,272,737
Now you can instantly say that the first number is 373 million something…. And the 2nd number is 6 Trillion 372 billion something… you neither need to count no need to waste so much time.
That's why in a calculator also numbers are separated by comma ',' for a better understanding.
Also for your reference,
X,000 - X thousand
X,000,000 - X million
X,000,000,000 - X billion
X,000,000,000,000 - X trillion
And so on…
Good one.
Hi how to make dna to know if I'm a dragon
i have a question how did neanderthals and Denisovans being different species reproduce with one another ?
Different species of the same genus can produce fertile offspring such as the liger or zorse
Ohhh ok thanks a lot. @@christopherobrien5005
@@christopherobrien5005 Sir, have you heard anything or any reports made by scientists you can suggest ? Like breeding with a Dog with Fox... Or 2 different birds of same genus ... have you any idea that Any new species came in last 50 years ?
@@harindamodara1232 You can find lots of example of it happening in nature with a search. There was also the recent laboratory experiment where they created a chimera of another primate with a human. Normally that shouldn't happen in nature.
Easy. They were never different species. That is just more nonsense the media pushes