For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no ...

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Prehistoric Jomon People of Japan Show Little to No Denisovan Ancestry, New Study Finds - © Fu et al, Cell (2025) CC-by-4.0 A newly published genetic study has ...

Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry—published March 28 in Current Biology—suggests that many bloodlines around the world, particularly of ...

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For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found in a ...

Recent studies have traced the ancestry of a nearly complete skull, discovered near Harbin, Heilongjiang province, to the Denisovan lineage. As one of the closest known relatives to modern humans ...