A Tibetan Buddhist monk picks up a mandible in a cave in Tibet in 1980; it now turns out to belong to those archaic human relatives known as Denisovans, whose remains had only previously been found in Siberia, according to a May 1, 2019, paper in the journal Nature. “It blows my mind,â€� notes Dr. […]
Small is beautiful and it would seem that was likely the case around half-a-million years ago, when humans found the little Denisovan people irresistible. This appears to be the reason why the modern “population of Oceania and Papua New Guinea received 5% of its DNA from Denisovans.” The research team from the University of Washington […]
Dr. Viola and his colleagues got another intriguing clue about the Denisovans when they tallied up the variations in the DNA sample. The Denisovans, they found, had almost as much genetic diversity as modern Europeans even though the remains were …
New discoveries continue to wind back humanity’s clock by millennia. None are more astounding than recently excavated 40,000 year old jewelry in Siberia. Our long-lost Denisovan cousins didn’t string beads on leather, they carved bracelets out of marble. From the photos, this artifact is a beaut and a testament to genus Homo‘s ingenuity. The ancient […]
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