Were Other Humans The First Victims Of The Sixth Mᴀss Extinction?
AncientPages.com – Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa. A Neanderthal skull shows head trauma, evidence of ancient violence. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Several […]
Denisovan Genetic Heritage Could Affect The Mental Health Of European And Asian Populations
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A research team led by the Insтιтute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed, which affects zinc regulation, could have signified an evolutionary advantage in our ancestors’ adaptation to […]
Human Ancestry Has Been Shaped By Mixing And Matching Alleles – New Study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations. Admixture results in a blending of genetic lineages, leading to increased genetic diversity within populations. In addition to admixture among […]
First Facial Reconstruction Reveals What Denisovans May Have Looked Like
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you’d find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our Denisovan relatives might have looked like had been anyone’s guess for a simple reason: the entire collection of Denisovan remains includes […]
New Insight On What Ancient Noses Smelled
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens next? According to a study led by University of Alaska Fairbanks biological anthropologist Kara C. Hoover and Universite Paris-Saclay biochemist Claire de March, the Denisovan, with the species’ […]
Why Did Ancient Humans Have Same Sense Of Smell, But Different Sensitivities?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it’s a good thing your nose wasn’t as sensitive to urine and sweat as a modern human’s. And if you lived the hunting and gathering lifestyle of a Denisovan on the Asian steppes, your strong nose for energy-rich honey was […]
Mystery Of Human Evolution – What Can Ancient Genes Tell Us About Who We Are?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using the latest scientific methods, researchers want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Two scientists who were the first ones to find a first-generation offspring of two different types of humans are now attempting to solve the long-standing mystery. A key […]
Girl’s Ancient Tooth Solves One Of The Biggest Mysteries Of The Denisovans
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans disappeared about 50,000 years ago. Denisovans are known from few physical remains, and, consequently, most of what is known about them comes from DNA evidence. Credit: Adobe […]
The Oldest Denisovan Fossils Ever Discovered Shed New Light On Early Hominins As They Spread Across Eurasia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human fossils from the key site of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The remains, which include three Denisovans and one Neanderthal, were found in a secure and well […]
Mysterious Denisovans – New Study Offers New Evidence
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and the ancient humans known from fossil records in Island Southeast Asia. However, they did find further DNA evidence of our mysterious ancient cousins, the Denisovans, which could […]