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In a bone-filled week, a rediscovered cranium from China might represent an entirely new species of human that's possibly our closest evolutionary relative. And, while studying a 5,000-year-old skeleton, scientists found evidence of what might be the earliest plague infection.

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Sources:
Dragon Man
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cp-mf061721.php
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Supplementary Material
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Plague
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