Dragon man fossil papers seem to be open access

[RonO]

Dating the specimen:
https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(21)00056-4

Characterization:
https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(21)00057-6

https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(21)00055-2

The papers are open access:

The titles are likely over hype on the find. It probably isn't a new
species and it may not represent any new lineage. We don't know what
Denisovans looked like, and the skull looks more like a hybrid between
modern humans and Neanderthal or Homo erectus types. It has a mix of
modern human and erectus type features. If they can get DNA out of the
fossil that would be better than speculating as to why such a modern
fossil (146,000 years old) has a mix of Homo features. Current DNA
results with Neanderthal specimens indicates that modern humans did make
it out of Africa around this time, but the modern migrants didn't make
it (died out), but they did leave evidence that they interbred with
Neanderthals. Some of them or their descendants may have made it to China.

Ron Okimoto