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We All Carry Neanderthal And Denisovan DNA – Here’s How That Affects Us
Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...
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'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges
Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the ...
Scientists Discover DNA of Mysterious Lineage of Hominins in Modern Humans
Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...
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Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?
Dr Linda Ongaro, from Trinity's School of Genetics and Microbiology, explains what we know of the hominin species that ...
Their DNA Still Lives in Us, But Who Were the Denisovans?
It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...
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New Clues Reveal How Denisovan DNA Shaped Early Human Evolution
Subscribe for FREE “Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record consists of only that finger bone, a jawbone, teeth, and skull fragments. But by leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments ...
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Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?
Unlike Neanderthals, whose fossils are relatively abundant, Denisovan remains continue to be very scarce. Apart from that Siberian finger bone, the main other discovery was a jawbone found in ...