#denisovans — Public Fediverse posts
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7-Jan-2026
Early #hominins from #Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of #HomoSapiens
773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, #Neanderthals, and #Denisovans -
Where Are the Denisovans? The Answer is in our DNA - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zql33Lg6Q#History #Paleoanthropology #Denisovans #DNA #HumanEvolution
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Interesting.
"The newly-analyzed tooth belonged to a male Denisovan who lived about 200,000 years ago, at a time when modern humans had not yet left Africa."
So, more importantly, this research apparently provides evidence that #Asians evolved from #Denisovans living in Siberia around 200,000 yrs ago, prior to & separately from other racial groups who evolved from other human ancestors that originated in Africa; the only common link apparently being interbreeding of these separate racial groups with the #Neanderthals, which itself was a separate human sub-species.
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A single tooth from Siberia has yielded a 200,000 year old Denisovan genome. It reveals repeated mixing with Neanderthals, deep population turnover, and why Denisovan DNA lives on in us today. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Denisovans https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-tooth-from-a-different-world
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A 200,000-year-old Denisovan genome reveals multiple ancient Denisovan populations, unexpected Neanderthal contacts, and hints of a mysterious hominin lineage. Human evolution looks more tangled than ever. #paleoanthropology #ancientDNA #humanorigins #Denisovans https://www.anthropology.net/p/ghost-lineages-in-the-dna
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Denisovans May Have Interbred With Mysterious Group of Ancient Humans
John Bavaro Fine Arts/Science Photo For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found in a Siberian cave.The genome reveals that there were at least three populations of Denisovans, with different histories. It also shows that early Denisovans interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans........Continue reading.... By: Michael […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/11/01/denisovans-ancient-humans/
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A 40,000-year-old East Asian genome reveals an early Homo sapiens lineage with almost no Denisovan ancestry—challenging ideas about contact, migration, and evolution across Ice Age Asia. #Archaeogenetics #HumanEvolution #Denisovans #Pleistocene @janetk.bsky.social https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-missing-denisovan-shadow
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Yesterday's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #Denisovans. Exciting stuff is happening in that field as several #ossils including the #Harbin skull have been identified as Denisovan with molecular methods. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-denisovan-skull.html
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1 million-year-old Yunxian skull redefines human evolution and Denisovan origin
A crushed and distorted skull discovered in central China nearly 35 years ago is now redefining our understanding of early human evolution in Asia...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/yunxian-skull-redefines-human-evolution/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #evolution #yunxianskull #Denisovans #homolongi #humanevolution
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More on #HomoLongi - and how it points a finger to early hominins splitting into distinct groups, including our closest relatives like #Neanderthals and #Denisovans, much earlier than thought:
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A reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X.
According to a new analysis of fossil remains, the shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans lived over a million years ago – more than twice as old as previously believed – which could completely change our understanding of humanity's evolution.
#Neanderthals #Denisovans #HomoSapiens #Ancestors #AncestorX #Humans #Humanity #Evolution #Science
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A 1-million-year-old skull from China links Homo longi, Denisovans & early Homo sapiens, reshaping our view of human origins in Asia. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans #Fossils https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-skull-from-china-rewrites-the-story
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New research links Denisovan habitats to immune genes in today’s humans. From Siberia’s ticks to Southeast Asia’s malaria, ancient landscapes shaped our DNA. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans #Immunogenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/denisovan-genes-and-the-ancient-geography
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Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA helped the first Americans survive, study finds
The first people to set foot in the Americas crossed with them not only stone technology and survival skills across the icy expanse of the Bering Strait. Along with these, a new study published in Science indicates that they also carried a genetic legacy inherited from two extinct relatives...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/denisovan-dna-helped-the-first-americans/
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Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that Homo sapiens thrived while the others became extinct..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/why-humans-survived-while-neanderthals-went-extinct/
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#archaeology #anthropology #evolution #Neanderthals #homosapiens #Denisovans #neanderthal
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An ancient genetic fragment from a ghost species, the Denisovans, may have helped the first humans in the Americas survive. Our deep past continues to shape our biology. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans @sciencemagazine https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-ghost-from-the-past-paved
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Sounds like the #Denisovans made #colonization of the #Americas possible
DNA from extinct hominin may have helped ancient peoples survive in the Americas https://share.google/tBKqaTW5tUi1USn9V #evolution #darwin #archaeology #hominids
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Our family tree is a tangled web of ancient love stories. New research shows interbreeding with Denisovans shaped our immunity, high-altitude survival, & cold adaptation. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Denisovans #Genetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-ghost-in-our-genes-the-enduring
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#Denisovans were an extinct group of archaic humans, closely related to modern humans and #Neanderthals.
DNA evidence from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in Siberia, Russia, led to their initial identification in 2010.
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Ich mag diese eingeschobene Notiz
#Neandertaler #Denisova #Denisovan #Denisovans #HomoSapiens #Evolution #Urgeschichte
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(07 Jul) Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
The find may require rethinking the so-called “Bamboo Hypothesis.”…
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/n2keq
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/eie6z#ancient-people-did-stuff #archaeology #denisovans #hominins #homo-erectus #homo-heidelbergensis #science #wooden-tools
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From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan’s ...
https://trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/the-denisovans-got-a-face-turns-out-its-dragon-mans
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From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan’s ...
https://trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/the-denisovans-got-a-face-turns-out-its-dragon-mans
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From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan’s ...
https://trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/the-denisovans-got-a-face-turns-out-its-dragon-mans
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From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan’s ...
https://trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/the-denisovans-got-a-face-turns-out-its-dragon-mans
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From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan’s ...
https://trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/the-denisovans-got-a-face-turns-out-its-dragon-mans
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#paleontology #paleoanthropology #hominins #fossils #Denisovans
Two articles, one published in the journal "Cell" and one in the journal "Science", describe two exams conducted on the so-called Harbin Cranium, a fossil discovered in Manchuria, northeastern China, dated at least 146,000 years old. A team of researchers recovered fragments of mitochondrial DNA from the dental calculus still present on the skull and proteins.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2025/06/26/new-study-attributes-the-harbin-cranium-to-a-denisovan/
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The #Denisovans are an enigmatic species of #hominin so far mostly known from their #DNA and a few #fossil fragments, typically thought to have inhabited mostly northern ranges. We now have evidence of tripical habitation from the southern seas of Tibet - https://youtube.com/shorts/nSHmKC8k5DM?si=AD9SjHeNiim5meAR #Anthropology
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wow - this expands the realm of #Denisovans a lot.
10-Apr-2025
A new #Denisovan
mandible from #Taiwan
Ancient #protein analysis revealed that the oldest #hominin #fossil in Taiwan was derived from a male Denisovanhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079260
Paper is out in #Science #anthropology
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If you like thinking and learning about human prehistory, you'll like this interview with geneticist David Reich. Two hours on what research tells us about human origins, how modern humans relate to Neanderthals and Denisovans, ancient DNA, ancient epidemics, admixture, how genetics informs archaeology, and the spread of the Yamnaya from the steppes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI
#DavidReich #HumanOrigins #HumanGenetics #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #OutOfAfrica #Prehistory #Neanderthals #Denisovans
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A thought I had the other day after a fun winding discussion at lunch at work:
Should there in fact be separate genuses for the people before and after our chromosomes changed from 24 pairs to 23 pairs? Which iirc would mean modern humans, neanderthals, & denisovans would form our own genus (Homo since we are the holotype species), and habilis, erectus, ergaster etc would form a separate genus.
Could this work? -
Immune system of modern Papuans shaped by DNA from ancient Denisovans
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-immune-modern-papuans-dna-ancient.html -
Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
Evidence from the DNA traces left by #Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, probably travelled to the Philippines and Laos in south Asia and might have made their way to northern China more than 100,000 years ago. They interbred with modern humans.
Their DNA, which was first found in samples from the Denisova cave in Siberia in 2010, provides most of our information about their existence. Only a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone and one or two teeth provide any evidence of their physical characteristics.But recently scientists have pinpointed a strong candidate for the species to which the Denisovans might have belonged.
This is #Homo #longi
– or “Dragon man”
– from Harbin in north-east China.
This key fossil is made up of an almost complete skull with a braincase as big as a modern human’s and a flat face with delicate cheekbones. Dating suggests it is at least 150,000 years old.
“We now believe that the Denisovans were members of the Homo longi species,” said Prof Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, last week. “The latter is characterised by a broad nose, thick brow ridges over its eyes and large tooth sockets.”
The possible Denisovan-Homo longi link is one of several recent developments by researchers working on these humans with whom Homo sapiens shared the planet for hundreds of thousands of years. It is thought they could have played a key role in our own evolution.Scientists in Tibet have discovered a Denisovan gene in local people, the result of interbreeding between the two species in the distant past.
Crucially, this gene has been shown to help modern men and women survive at high altitudes.
In addition, evidence to support the Denisovan-Homo longi link has also been traced to the Tibetan plateau, where scientists began studying a jawbone initially found in a remote cave 3,000 metres (10,000ft) above sea level by a Buddhist monk, who kept it as a relic.
The bone was found not to come from a modern human. But only when researchers began to study the cave where the jawbone had been originally discovered did they find its sediments were rich in Denisovan DNA.
In addition, it was found the fossil itself contained proteins that indicated Denisovan origins.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/30/scientists-link-elusive-human-group-to-150000-year-old-chinese-dragon-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
Evidence from the DNA traces left by #Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, probably travelled to the Philippines and Laos in south Asia and might have made their way to northern China more than 100,000 years ago. They interbred with modern humans.
Their DNA, which was first found in samples from the Denisova cave in Siberia in 2010, provides most of our information about their existence. Only a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone and one or two teeth provide any evidence of their physical characteristics.But recently scientists have pinpointed a strong candidate for the species to which the Denisovans might have belonged.
This is #Homo #longi
– or “Dragon man”
– from Harbin in north-east China.
This key fossil is made up of an almost complete skull with a braincase as big as a modern human’s and a flat face with delicate cheekbones. Dating suggests it is at least 150,000 years old.
“We now believe that the Denisovans were members of the Homo longi species,” said Prof Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, last week. “The latter is characterised by a broad nose, thick brow ridges over its eyes and large tooth sockets.”
The possible Denisovan-Homo longi link is one of several recent developments by researchers working on these humans with whom Homo sapiens shared the planet for hundreds of thousands of years. It is thought they could have played a key role in our own evolution.Scientists in Tibet have discovered a Denisovan gene in local people, the result of interbreeding between the two species in the distant past.
Crucially, this gene has been shown to help modern men and women survive at high altitudes.
In addition, evidence to support the Denisovan-Homo longi link has also been traced to the Tibetan plateau, where scientists began studying a jawbone initially found in a remote cave 3,000 metres (10,000ft) above sea level by a Buddhist monk, who kept it as a relic.
The bone was found not to come from a modern human. But only when researchers began to study the cave where the jawbone had been originally discovered did they find its sediments were rich in Denisovan DNA.
In addition, it was found the fossil itself contained proteins that indicated Denisovan origins.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/30/scientists-link-elusive-human-group-to-150000-year-old-chinese-dragon-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
Evidence from the DNA traces left by #Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, probably travelled to the Philippines and Laos in south Asia and might have made their way to northern China more than 100,000 years ago. They interbred with modern humans.
Their DNA, which was first found in samples from the Denisova cave in Siberia in 2010, provides most of our information about their existence. Only a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone and one or two teeth provide any evidence of their physical characteristics.But recently scientists have pinpointed a strong candidate for the species to which the Denisovans might have belonged.
This is #Homo #longi
– or “Dragon man”
– from Harbin in north-east China.
This key fossil is made up of an almost complete skull with a braincase as big as a modern human’s and a flat face with delicate cheekbones. Dating suggests it is at least 150,000 years old.
“We now believe that the Denisovans were members of the Homo longi species,” said Prof Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, last week. “The latter is characterised by a broad nose, thick brow ridges over its eyes and large tooth sockets.”
The possible Denisovan-Homo longi link is one of several recent developments by researchers working on these humans with whom Homo sapiens shared the planet for hundreds of thousands of years. It is thought they could have played a key role in our own evolution.Scientists in Tibet have discovered a Denisovan gene in local people, the result of interbreeding between the two species in the distant past.
Crucially, this gene has been shown to help modern men and women survive at high altitudes.
In addition, evidence to support the Denisovan-Homo longi link has also been traced to the Tibetan plateau, where scientists began studying a jawbone initially found in a remote cave 3,000 metres (10,000ft) above sea level by a Buddhist monk, who kept it as a relic.
The bone was found not to come from a modern human. But only when researchers began to study the cave where the jawbone had been originally discovered did they find its sediments were rich in Denisovan DNA.
In addition, it was found the fossil itself contained proteins that indicated Denisovan origins.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/30/scientists-link-elusive-human-group-to-150000-year-old-chinese-dragon-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
Evidence from the DNA traces left by #Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, probably travelled to the Philippines and Laos in south Asia and might have made their way to northern China more than 100,000 years ago. They interbred with modern humans.
Their DNA, which was first found in samples from the Denisova cave in Siberia in 2010, provides most of our information about their existence. Only a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone and one or two teeth provide any evidence of their physical characteristics.But recently scientists have pinpointed a strong candidate for the species to which the Denisovans might have belonged.
This is #Homo #longi
– or “Dragon man”
– from Harbin in north-east China.
This key fossil is made up of an almost complete skull with a braincase as big as a modern human’s and a flat face with delicate cheekbones. Dating suggests it is at least 150,000 years old.
“We now believe that the Denisovans were members of the Homo longi species,” said Prof Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, last week. “The latter is characterised by a broad nose, thick brow ridges over its eyes and large tooth sockets.”
The possible Denisovan-Homo longi link is one of several recent developments by researchers working on these humans with whom Homo sapiens shared the planet for hundreds of thousands of years. It is thought they could have played a key role in our own evolution.Scientists in Tibet have discovered a Denisovan gene in local people, the result of interbreeding between the two species in the distant past.
Crucially, this gene has been shown to help modern men and women survive at high altitudes.
In addition, evidence to support the Denisovan-Homo longi link has also been traced to the Tibetan plateau, where scientists began studying a jawbone initially found in a remote cave 3,000 metres (10,000ft) above sea level by a Buddhist monk, who kept it as a relic.
The bone was found not to come from a modern human. But only when researchers began to study the cave where the jawbone had been originally discovered did they find its sediments were rich in Denisovan DNA.
In addition, it was found the fossil itself contained proteins that indicated Denisovan origins.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/30/scientists-link-elusive-human-group-to-150000-year-old-chinese-dragon-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
Evidence from the DNA traces left by #Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, probably travelled to the Philippines and Laos in south Asia and might have made their way to northern China more than 100,000 years ago. They interbred with modern humans.
Their DNA, which was first found in samples from the Denisova cave in Siberia in 2010, provides most of our information about their existence. Only a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone and one or two teeth provide any evidence of their physical characteristics.But recently scientists have pinpointed a strong candidate for the species to which the Denisovans might have belonged.
This is #Homo #longi
– or “Dragon man”
– from Harbin in north-east China.
This key fossil is made up of an almost complete skull with a braincase as big as a modern human’s and a flat face with delicate cheekbones. Dating suggests it is at least 150,000 years old.
“We now believe that the Denisovans were members of the Homo longi species,” said Prof Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, last week. “The latter is characterised by a broad nose, thick brow ridges over its eyes and large tooth sockets.”
The possible Denisovan-Homo longi link is one of several recent developments by researchers working on these humans with whom Homo sapiens shared the planet for hundreds of thousands of years. It is thought they could have played a key role in our own evolution.Scientists in Tibet have discovered a Denisovan gene in local people, the result of interbreeding between the two species in the distant past.
Crucially, this gene has been shown to help modern men and women survive at high altitudes.
In addition, evidence to support the Denisovan-Homo longi link has also been traced to the Tibetan plateau, where scientists began studying a jawbone initially found in a remote cave 3,000 metres (10,000ft) above sea level by a Buddhist monk, who kept it as a relic.
The bone was found not to come from a modern human. But only when researchers began to study the cave where the jawbone had been originally discovered did they find its sediments were rich in Denisovan DNA.
In addition, it was found the fossil itself contained proteins that indicated Denisovan origins.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/30/scientists-link-elusive-human-group-to-150000-year-old-chinese-dragon-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
2022's features in #CurrentBiology now in the #OpenArchives (22/24):
Extinct, me? Various ways in which #Neanderthals and #Denisovans are still among us / within us / relevant today.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2022/11/neanderthals-alive-and-well.html
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New research finds tha technically, all #humans are #MixedRace, and that happened before #HomoSapiens started doing it with #Neantherthals and #Denisovans
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Is the “Dragon Man” skull actually from a new hominin species? - Enlarge / The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right). (credit: Ni et al. ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1778075 #paleoanthropology #ancienthominins #extincthominins #humanevolution #anthropology #neanderthals #archaeology #denisovans #hominins #science #skulls
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Not-so-hostile takeover: Human Y chromosome displaced the Neanderthals’ version - Comparison of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (c... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1709244 #paleoanthropology #homininevolution #ancienthominins #humanevolution #paleogenomics #neanderthals #archaeology #ancientdna #denisovans #science
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The last days of Homo erectus - Skulls from central Java may come from the last surviving population of Homo erectus, suggest... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1634575 #islandsoutheastasia #paleoanthropology #radiometricdating #homininevolution #ancienthominins #humanevolution #humanmigration #southeastasia #archaeology #homoerectus #denisovans #indonesia #hominins #science #java
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Long stretches of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA helped Homo sapiens adapt - Global map of Denisovan gene frequency in modern human genomes (credit: Image courtesy of Jacobsson... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1588587 #populationgenetics #ancienthominins #paleogenomics #neanderthals #humangenome #denisovans #science #dna
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Denisovan fossil finger points to the timing of Neanderthal evolution - Enlarge / The two fragments of Denisova 3's fingertip, reunited in digital form. (credit: Bennett e... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1561787 #paleoanthropology #homininevolution #humanancestors #humanevolution #anthropology #denisovacave #neanderthals #archaeology #paleolithic #denisovans #hominins #science