Angela
Elite member
- Messages
- 21,823
- Reaction score
- 12,329
- Points
- 113
- Ethnic group
- Italian
See:
https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/denisovan-skull-found/
"[FONT="]Only four individual Denisovans had been identified previously, all from one cave in Siberia. The first Denisovan was described in 2010 from the fragment of a pinky finger bone, and three more were identified from teeth[/FONT][FONT="]. This skull piece, excavated about three years ago in that same Siberian cave, represents a fifth individual[/FONT][FONT="]."
"[/FONT][FONT="]S[/FONT][FONT="]adly, the newfound piece is not large enough to use to identify other skulls found elsewhere as Denisovan without genetic information to back the diagnosis up. Researchers are still waiting for a find like that, which would likely help to boost their collection and understanding of Denisovans. Researchers think the extinct hominins once roamed widely across Asia, but since most fossils aren’t well enough preserved to allow for genetic analysis, it has been hard to identify Denisovans elsewhere.[/FONT][FONT="]In 2017, some researchers wondered whether two partial skulls found in China might be Denisovan, but this remains unconfirmed. “It should be possible to see how well this [new find] matches with Chinese fossils such as those from Xuchang, which people like me have speculated might be Denisovans,” says Stringer."[/FONT]
https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/denisovan-skull-found/
"[FONT="]Only four individual Denisovans had been identified previously, all from one cave in Siberia. The first Denisovan was described in 2010 from the fragment of a pinky finger bone, and three more were identified from teeth[/FONT][FONT="]. This skull piece, excavated about three years ago in that same Siberian cave, represents a fifth individual[/FONT][FONT="]."
"[/FONT][FONT="]S[/FONT][FONT="]adly, the newfound piece is not large enough to use to identify other skulls found elsewhere as Denisovan without genetic information to back the diagnosis up. Researchers are still waiting for a find like that, which would likely help to boost their collection and understanding of Denisovans. Researchers think the extinct hominins once roamed widely across Asia, but since most fossils aren’t well enough preserved to allow for genetic analysis, it has been hard to identify Denisovans elsewhere.[/FONT][FONT="]In 2017, some researchers wondered whether two partial skulls found in China might be Denisovan, but this remains unconfirmed. “It should be possible to see how well this [new find] matches with Chinese fossils such as those from Xuchang, which people like me have speculated might be Denisovans,” says Stringer."[/FONT]