The Denisovan people evolved a variant of the MUC19 immune gene, which eventually found its way into humans through inbreeding. In most of the world, that variant is rare, but it’s common among people ...
Somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern East Asians interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans ...
A simplified model of human evolution showing how humans are related to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Arrows between different branches show mating that occurred. Events that happened further back in ...
Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...
Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...
Scientists extracted proteins from a Homo erectus tooth in China, finding a direct genetic link to Denisovans and the modern ...
Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and ...
People from Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia carry small amounts of DNA of an unidentified, extinct human species, a new research analysis has suggested. Statistical geneticist carried out ...
A new Nature study reports that proteins preserved in 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth carry a signal also seen in Denisovans, raising the possibility that these two ancient human relatives once ...