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Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

But many parts are named after people. The vast majority of these are men, whose identities are invisibly stamped on every ...

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When officers arrived to the location, which is just 0.3 miles from Swift’s home, they located what appeared to be a human leg bone.

So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along, and thanks to the remarkably well-preserved skull, we finally know what the ...

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