Hublin explains that Neanderthal, Denisova and Homo Sapiens, the three great terminal forms of humanity between which the evolutionary match was to be played, were all big-brained. Back 300,000 ...

Some of the genes that Homo sapiens acquired from Neanderthals and Denisovans by ... DNA from a tiny piece of a 70,000 to 80,000-year-old finger bone. It came from the Denisova cave in Southern ...

Pääbo also discovered that there had been a gene transfer from the Denisova hominins to Homo sapiens, which points to the two subspecies procreating at some point while they coexisted.