For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the ...

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...

Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

The tree of life is often more like a vine that snakes back on itself, with tendrils briefly embracing before they reach for the sky or wither into nothing.

Subscribe for FREE “Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record consists of only that finger bone, a jawbone, teeth, and skull fragments. But by leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments ...

DNA extracted from bone fragments found in the cave show the girl was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. The discovery, reported in Nature, gives a rare insight into the ...

Homo juluensis fossils reveal a mix of archaic and modern traits, offering insights into Pleistocene hominin evolution.

This is a replica of the Denisovan finger bone on a hand. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 31, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Meyer at Max ...

A recently published review of the existing research on Denisovan DNA by Trinity College Dublin population geneticists Linda Ongaro and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez brings us up to date on how our own ...