.. ‘Dragon man’ fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative
— Read on phys.org/news/2021-06-dragon-fossil-neanderthals-closest-relative.

Using a series of geochemical analyses, Ji, Ni, and their team dated the Harbin fossil to at least 146,000 years, placing it in the Middle Pleistocene, a dynamic era of  migration. They hypothesize that H. longi and H. sapiens could have encountered each other during this era. J