For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

Deep within our cells, an ancient gene from Denisovans whispers the untold story of our evolution. By Tim Newcomb Published: Feb 01, 2024 9:30 AM EST. Jupiterimages // Getty Images.

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

However, the Denisovan variant of the SLC30A9 gene is also associated with a higher predisposition to neuropsychiatric ...

Remarkably, Denisovan genes helped us adapt to life in extreme environments—from high-altitude Tibet to the icy Arctic—granting us better oxygen use, stronger immune systems, and cold resistance.

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Certain genes of Denisovans have become more common because they provide an evolutionary advantage in modern humans. In Tibet , Dr. Huerta-Sánchez and her colleagues have found a Denisovan gene ...

Denisovan genes may have given modern humans some advantages. Six views of an ancient tooth, possibly Denisovan, discovered in Laos. | F Demeter et al, Nature Communications // CC BY 4.0 ...

“Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record consists of only that finger bone, a jawbone, teeth, and skull fragments. But by leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments in Modern Human ...

Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude.

In 2010, the first draft of the Neanderthal genome was published, and comparisons with modern human genomes revealed that Neanderthal and modern humans had interbred in the past. A few months later, ...