denisovans in A Sentence

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    The Neandertals Denisovans.

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    The Neanderthals Denisovans.

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    Neanderthals in the west and Denisovans in the east.

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    Fascinatingly, this finding doesn't mean modern humans looked like Denisovans.

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    Neanderthals and Denisovans were humans like us, but belonged to different species.

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    Importantly, this finding doesn't mean Denisovans are more related to us than Neanderthals.

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    Some 400,000 years later, a split occurred among the European Neanderthals, producing the Denisovans.

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    Sadly, the new work still doesn't really tell us what Denisovans looked like.

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    Genetic evidence suggests modern humans interbred with Denisovans(and also Neanderthals), and that Neanderthals interbred with Denisovans.

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    Together with their sister group the Neanderthals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans.

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    The Denisovans were unique in many ways, having branched away from other humanoid ancestors some 1 million years ago.

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    That the Denisovans even existed only became clear in 2010, following a genetic analysis of the pinky finger phalanx.

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    The first evidence for Denisovans or Denisova hominins was first discovered in 2008 in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia.

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    Still, these five fossils, even when combined with the genetic data, have done little to tell us what the Denisovans actually looked like.

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    Very little is known about the Denisovans- a mysterious group of hominins that lived alongside early humans and Neanderthals during the last Ice Age.

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    That the finger looked more human-like than Neanderthal-like surprised the research team, because it suggests that modern humans and Denisovans obtained and retained their fingers from a shared common ancestor.

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    But while the Denisovans do share some traits with the Neanderthals, and some modern humans share minute traces of Denisovan DNA, no one has yet been able to figure out who the Denisovans were- or what.

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    Yet the greater implications of these findings relate to the possible presence in South Asia in the distant past of Denisovans, who in Indian mythology may well be remembered as blood thirtsy demons known as the Rakshasas.

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    Douka, who wasn't affiliated with the new research, thought it notable that the authors were able to specify the age at which the female individual died,“assuming the same developmental stages for both modern humans and Denisovans,” she said.

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    What Majumder and his team found was that the Denisovan ancestry present among the indigenous populations of the Indian sub-continent was that of the Sunda Denisovans, and not their northern cousins, who probably thrived in Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan Plateau and eastern Asia, most obviously northern China.

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