That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

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

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

An analysis of the blood types of one Denisovan and three Neanderthal individuals has uncovered new clues to the evolutionary history, health, and vulnerabilities of their populations. Silvana Condemi ...

Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder has investigated a gene passed from Denisovan populations to modern humans, which underwent positive selection in Indigenous American ...

Based on ancient DNA methylation patterns, a portrait of a juvenile female Denisovan has been recreated. A decade ago, scientists excavating Denisova Cave in southern Siberia discovered fossils of a ...

Discovered by accident in a Siberian cave, the Denisovans changed everything we thought we knew about human evolution. From the teenage girl whose DNA revealed a new species, to the hybrid daughter of ...

A mysterious human jaw discovered off the coast of Taiwan doesn't belong to our species or Neanderthals, but to another extinct relative, Denisovans. In a new study, researchers used a cutting-edge ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

An undated photo provided by Qiaomei Fu shows a skull found in Harbin, China, in 1933, which has been found to contain both Denisovan DNA and Denisovan protein. Fifteen years after the discovery of a ...