The origin of humanity can be summarized as a long story of hybridization and migrations. The more data we have about the ...

Listed among our early romantic conquests are the Denisovans, and researchers now believe we mated with at least three ...

The Theory The Denisovans’ closest cousins were Neanderthals. After leaving Africa, modern humans interbred with both these ancient forms of human. The evidence comes from their DNA and ours.

The molar of a Denisovan girl who lived more than 130,000 years ago may help answer how indigenous people living in Australia and other Pacific island nations share DNA with the early-human species.

It’s one of the most mysterious human ancestors in history, and now scientists have revealed what the Denisovans might have looked like. Denisovans lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals ...

According to the results, there are hundreds of gene variants found in the population that indicate two distinct Denisovan lineages separated by 350,000 years, and there are enough differences in them ...

The geneticist’s accomplishments include sequencing Neanderthal DNA and leading the project that identified a new species of hominin, the Denisovans. Shawna was an editor at The Scientist from 2017 ...

The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.