Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Humanity's closest relatives, both extinct, are the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The second group, who lived alongside both humans and Neanderthals, were only discovered in 2008. They lived across ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Two studies published on Wednesday in the journals Science and Cell presented molecular evidence confirming that the 146,000-year-old Harbin skull, discovered near Harbin in northeast China, ...

Paleontologists in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that likely belonged to a young Denisovan girl. The discovery is a big deal, as the Laotian cave in which the molar was found is now one of only ...

The human family tree has many twisting branches, and we don’t fully understand most of them. One of the most enigmatic are the Denisovans, who were only discovered in 2008 and have been described ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Using artificial intelligence, a number of European evolutionary biologists now ...

Whether we want to accept it or not, our fossil record shows that ancient humans regularly mated with Neanderthals. We now know that most non-Africans have at least a little bit of Neanderthal DNA, ...

Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins that once walked alongside (and had sex with) Neanderthals and modern humans, are an enigmatic branch of our family tree. They left fragments of their DNA ...

Anthropologists have just hit the genomic jackpot. Among the thousands of bone fragments excavated from an ancient cave in Siberia’s Altai mountains, scientists have identified an inch-long shard that ...