Denisovans Archive
Evolution
AncientPages.com - Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia,
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 90,000 years ago, an interesting child walked the Earth. This individual was a young human hybrid. Nicknamed Denny by scientists, the ancient
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals,
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times and that some humans carry DNA
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it's a good thing your nose wasn't as sensitive to urine and sweat
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using the latest scientific methods, researchers want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Two
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations. When did populations of Homo sapiens
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Learning more about the Neanderthals and Denisovans is significant if we want to understand how these extinct species are related to modern humans.
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have analyzed the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date and show that the 34,000-year-old woman inherited around
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered genetic fingerprints of unknown species in human DNA. Lurking within our genome are traces of genetic material from various ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have used DNA to recreate the skull of a mysterious, extinct cousin of the Neanderthals. The genetic material came from a fossilized
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene and successfully adapted to high-altitude low-oxygen environments long before the regional arrival of modern Homo
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Massey scientist is helping unearth new information about the earliest human-like groups, which can be used to improve healthcare for people in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists are using artificial intelligence to unravel the mystery of human evolution. According to the latest report, AI (artificial intelligence) may have found
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with a related archaic population, we known today as Denisovans. Researchers unexpectedly
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When and where people started to wear clothes, is still uncertain. However, there is evidence that clothes were invented a very long time
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Past studies have revealed that forebears of modern humans in Asia and Europe interbred with other early hominin species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. Researchers have now found
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers has analyzed DNA of two molars from Siberia’s Denisova Caves and uncovered new information that undoubtedly sheds light on the origins of
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