Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Now, using new technology, scientists have sequenced with high precision the genome of one of those close but little-known relatives: an extinct people known as the Denisovans, who lived in and around modern-day Siberia. The Denisovan genome,...
io9
| 10 months ago
One of the great mysteries of early human evolution is what happened to extinct hominin groups like the Neanderthals and Denisovans. These were human groups who lived in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens started...
National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
August 30, 2012 August 30, 2012 Scientists in Germany have been able to get enough DNA from a fossilized pinky to produce a high-quality DNA sequence of the pinky's owner. "It's a really amazing-quality genome," says David Reich of Harvard Medical...
DAWN
| 10 months ago
A scrap of bone found in a cave in Siberia has shed light on the genetic odyssey of an enigmatic group of humans called the Denisovans, scientists reported on Thursday. The existence of the Denisovans only emerged in 2010, through a piece of finger...
The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Johannes Krause/AP Scientists have reconstructed the entire genetic makeup of a girl who lived and died in a Siberian cave more than 50,000 years ago. The young woman belonged to an ancient and long extinct group of humans called Denisovans, their...
Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
30 August 2012 A tiny fragment of finger bone has enabled scientists to map out the entire genetic code of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient cousin of modern humans. Evidence suggests that the Denisovans, who lived in Siberia around 50,000 years...
