"Dragon man" prompts rethinking of Middle Pleistocene hominin systematics in Asia
Graphical abstract
Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) hominin fossils that could not be easily assigned to Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensis, or H. sapiens have traditionally been assigned to an all-inclusive group: “archaic H. sapiens.” In an insightful observation of the Chibanian record almost four decades ago however, Tattersall railed against the use of the word “archaic” in this sense when referring to the human fossil record, as he justifiably noted that no other biological organism has the word “archaic” attached to it.
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