I didn’t see this posted anywhere, and maybe it’s not new but…
Paywalled.
Ars Technica article:
Brian
From the article
“So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along”
Nope. Since earlier naming of a species has precedence, “Denisovans” were Homo longi all along.
Reconstruction looks a bit fanciful to me but ok
Dude is ripped.
Weird, not paywalled for me. ::shrug::
That’s a serious brow ridge.
I can get to it other ways, like in a Chrome ‘incognito’ window. I used to be able to access CNN subscriber articles in more ways but maybe they dropped a cookie on me and it’s more difficult now. I refuse to pay them to see their content though, and rarely find it worthwhile to put the effort in for a work-around.
The skull is old (first unearthed in 1933), but the name is new. “Homo longi” is only from 2021 (I don’t think the scientific community would have approved a Chinese-derived name in 1933). Apparently the discoverer hid the skull away for the better part of a century, before his heirs found it and donated it to a museum.
Dear gentle and of course very modern apes, Gutsick Gibbon Erika is back with a doozy ~
“The million dollar question”
“The stupid interbreeding these guys are doing”
“So unbearably cool”
She explains the weird clash between genetics and morphology going on here.
“I’m not trying to slut shame the hominins” …
A New Scientist article estimated Denisovan weight at 100 kg. That’s way big for an average human.
Especially in primitive living conditions.
All muscle weight, though? I’m much more inclined to see steatopygia as beneficial rather than an eight-pack.
But much more likely to provoke anaconda attacks.