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5 days ago

Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA

Ancient tooth proteins indicate Homo erectus interbred with Denisovans, and modern humans inherited some Homo erectus DNA.
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7 months ago
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Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Reanalysis of a million-year-old skull (Yunxian 2) suggests modern human origins may extend to one million years ago and possibly originated outside Africa.
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10 months ago
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Evolution isn't a straight line: Modern humans come from 2 ancient lineages

Human evolution reveals a split into two distinct branches over 1.5 million years ago, challenging previous theories.
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5 days ago

Protein reveals the oldest episode of sex and procreation among human species

Protein evidence from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus fossils shows interbreeding with Denisovans, indicating a porous human evolutionary tree.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
7 months ago

Svante Paabo, father of paleogenetics: The reason for the Neanderthals' extinction lies in how numerous we've become'

Geneticist Svante Paabo demonstrated that DNA can be extracted from human fossils that are thousands of years old. His team was the first to sequence the complete genome of Neanderthals, our closest human relatives, and discovered that Homo Sapiens had sex and children with them. He also revealed the existence of a third, previously unknown human lineage, the Denisovans, thanks to genetic material extracted from a tiny bone of a girl who lived in a Siberian cave some 50,000 years ago.
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fromArs Technica
10 months ago

Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species

Gantangqing's hunter-gatherers could belong to Homo erectus, Denisovans, or Homo heidelbergensis, complicating species identification due to lack of identifiable bones.
fromwww.nature.com
10 months ago

First Near-Complete Denisovan Skull Reveals What This Ancient Human Cousin Looked Like

We finally have some insights into the cranial morphology of the Denisovans, which had remained a mystery since their DNA was first identified in 2010.
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11 months ago

Daily briefing: What a precious handful of fossils is teaching us about Denisovans

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1 year ago

Daily briefing: Mysterious Taiwan fossil is Denisovan

A Denisovan jawbone discovery expands our understanding of their geographical distribution.
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1 year ago

Mysterious human fossil found in Taiwan was a Denisovan

I'm very excited to see this," says Janet Kelso, a computational biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "This expands our understanding of Denisovans and their geographical range."
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