Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
- Written by Zenobia Jacobs, Professor, University of Wollongong
Richard ‘Bert’ Roberts, Vladimir Uliyanov and Maxim Kozlikin (clockwise from top) examining sediments in the East Chamber of Denisova Cave.Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Author provided
We know that some modern human genomes contain fragments of DNA from an ancient...