A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell 1 and ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding events. However, the history of contact with Denisovans remains unclear. By ...

A 146,000-year-old skull from Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, according to a recent study of proteins preserved inside the ancient bone. The paleoanthropologists who studied the Harbin skull in ...

For decades, the Harbin skull—dubbed “Dragon Man”—remained shrouded in mystery, its massive features unlike anything seen before and unmatched by any known human ancestor. Now, cutting-edge genetic ...

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Denisovan gene passed on to South Americans (IMAGE) University College London Caption An international research team found that a gene influencing lip shape in a Latin American population appears to ...