The Denisovans

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c. 60,000 BC · Denisova Cave, Altai · Eastern Europe & Russia · Science

A whole human species found from a little finger bone

In 2008 a little-finger bone of a girl who lived tens of thousands of years ago was found in Denisova Cave in the Altai; in 2010 its DNA revealed an unknown branch of humans related to Neanderthals. Denisovans ranged across Asia, and their genes live on: they make up several percent of the genome of Papuans.

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