A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...

New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred ... animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Early Human Species Benefited from Food Diversity ... from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the hominin ...

A new study reveals that early human ancestors nearly went extinct between 930,000 and 813,000 years ago, with just 1,280 survivors enduring harsh conditions and influencing the genetic makeup of ...

While the topic of this book might seem a little depressing, it is really a powerful wake-up call to all of us, based on the ...

Early human species almost went extinct before leaving ... and between other archaic human species such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, the latter known from ancient DNA preserved in isolated ...

A once-mysterious fossil of an early hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans has now been identified as ...