This Is the Face of Denisovian
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Chinese researchers have reconstructed the appearance of Denisovian, an extinct species of the genus Homo, from bones discovered in the 1970s.
A number of skull fragments found in China in the 1970s have been found to belong to Denisovans. Thanks to the bone fragments, scientists can figure out what our now-extinct relative really looked like.
A new scientific discovery in China sheds new light on the physical appearance of the Denisovians, a now extinct human group whose history is still largely unknown. Fossils discovered in the 1970s at the Xujiayao site in northern China, have just been identified as belonging to this ancient human population, thanks to ... Read more Paleoanthropology: Nearly 200,000-year-old fossils reveal the faces of the mysterious Denisovians →
The proteins of a 150,000-year-old fragment have betrayed a Denisovian bone, the first long bone ever attributed to this line. It finally illuminates the silhouette of these missing humans.
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