This map shows the proportion of the genome inferred to be Denisovan in ancestry in diverse non-Africans. The color scale is not linear to allow saturation of the high Denisova proportions in ...

The latest news about the Neanderthals and ... Information about the Denisovans, just like their remains, are much scarcer, ...

Some 350,000 or more years ago, the group of hominins that would evolve to become Neanderthals and Denisovans left Africa for Eurasia. A few hundred millennia later, about 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, ...

Aside from the Neanderthals, the Denisovans were the closest extinct relatives to modern humans. Evidence of their existence has been found across a wide range of areas, from the mountains of ...

The Neanderthal Y chromosome is much more closely related to the Y of modern humans than to the Y of Denisovans, another archaic hominin that lived in Eurasia at the same time as Neanderthals, ...