denisovans

A groundbreaking new study reveals that structural variants from ancient hominins played a crucial role in human evolutionary success A new study published in Science has created the first comprehensive global map of introgressed structural variants—large DNA segments (≥50 base pairs) inherited...

Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world, Larena et al. (2021) Highlights Comprehensive analyses of archaic ancestry among 118 Philippine ethnic groups Ayta Magbukon display ∼30%–40% greater Denisovan ancestry than Australopapuans The model is explained by...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210812123052.htm

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-glimpse-ancient-denisovans-dna-methylation.html

Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with another species of archaic humans, the mysterious Denisovans. While developing a new genome-analysis method for comparing whole genomes between modern human and Denisovan populations, researchers unexpectedly...

A new paper by Emilia Huerta-Sánchez and colleagues was published in Nature yesterday: Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA. Abstract As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered many new environmental conditions, including greater...