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Denisovan meaning
Of or pertaining to an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
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Researchers suspected that Denisovans were widespread in Asia, based on the widespread Denisovan genomic signal among present-day Asians.
The Denisovan fossil and the DNA it contained, indicate that early modern humans coexisted in Asia with other archaic hominin species, but, unexpectedly, that they interbred with them.
This discovery in Baishiya Karst Cave is the first time Denisovan DNA has been recovered from a location that is outside Denisova Cave in Siberia, Russia.
Based on their list, she made a model of Denisovan man — in cooperation with Rak, a physical anthropologist who has been studying archaic humans for decades.
Front and back views of the virtually reconstructed Denisovan finger fragment.
New research has revealed a Denisovan finger bone that’s unexpectedly human-like in shape—an odd observation, given the close relation of Denisovans to Neanderthals, whose fingers differed quite a bit from ours.
The first Denisovan bone, a molar, was discovered in 1984 in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
Viola said it would be “dangerous speculation” to reconstruct the entire Denisovan body from a few teeth, a lone jaw bone, and a pinky finger.
Researchers made the discovery when they examined DNA extracted from the bone and found that it contained chromosomes from a Neanderthal female and a Denisovan male.
However, evidence for archaic admixture in modern humans had been suggested by some studies. citation Recent sequencing of Neanderthal citation and Denisovan genomes shows that some admixture occurred.
The Altai mountains were home to the Denisovan branch of hominids who were contemporaries of Neanderthals and of Homo Sapiens (modern humans), descended from Hominids who reached Asia earlier than modern humans.