#Humans faced a #closecall with #extinction nearly #1millionyearsago
The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years
That population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between #modernhumans, #Neanderthals and #Denisovans.
Previous research suggested that modern humans originated about 300,000 years ago in Africa.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-faced-a-close-call-with-extinction-nearly-a-million-years-ago

#Denisovans perhaps the most mysterious of all hominids. Stumbled upon over a decade ago, this group has given up its DNA but not all of its bones.

Ghosts of the Denisovans
Evolution Soup ~ with Dr Laura Shackelford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBaBrZT7MM

New research finds tha technically, all #humans are #MixedRace, and that happened before #HomoSapiens started doing it with #Neantherthals and #Denisovans

#evolution #anthropology #genetics #science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01664-z

25-JAN-2023
Study offers new insight on what ancient noses smelled
Scientists compare humans' extinct genetic relatives to present-day people https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/977862 specifically: #denisovans, #neanderthals #smell

“The Denisovans, who lived 30,000 to 50,000 years ago, were shown to be less sensitive to the odors that present-day humans perceive as floral, but four times better at sensing sulfur and three times better at balsamic. And they were very attuned to honey.”#dna #isogg #internationalsocietyofgeneticgenealogy #geneticgenealogy #genealogy #geneadons
#epigenetics #Denisovans #neanderthals #ancientDNA
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ancient-humans-sensitivities.amp

Denisovans

https://youtu.be/s19s3MH6sTQ

#Denisovans #Archeology #Paleontology

Immune system of modern Papuans shaped by DNA from ancient #Denisovans https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/972798 #immunology #genome

#paleontology #paleoanthropology #fossils #Denisovans #Laos An article published in the journal "Nature Communications" reports the discovery in today's Laos of a tooth that was attributed to a little girl that belonged to the Denisovan species, an archaic human species still mysterious in many ways.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2022/05/19/an-ancient-molar-discovered-in-todays-laos-was-attributed-to-a-denisovan-little-girl/

#paleontology #archeology #paleoanthropology #fossils #hominins #DenisovaCave An article published in the journal "Nature Ecology and Evolution" reports the identification of new fossil bones belonging to the #Denisovans, the hominin species still mysterious from various points of view.

https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/12/02/human-bone-fragments-from-200000-years-ago-have-been-attributed-to-denisovans/

#genetics An article published in the journal "Current Biology" reports the results of a genetic research on 118 ethnic groups living in the #Philippines which indicated that in the #Aeta, or #Ayta, people and in particular in the Aeta Magbukon ethnic group there is the greatest concentration found so far of genes inherited from the #Denisovans, the human species whose remains identified with certainty have been discovered mainly in Siberia.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/08/13/a-remarkable-concentration-of-genes-inherited-from-the-denisovans-discovered-in-the-aeta-population-of-the-philippines/

#paleoanthropology #hominins #Neanderthals #Denisovans #HomoLongi Various articles report the results of separate studies on #fossils belonging to species of the genus Homo whose identification is based on fossils discovered in China and Israel, respectively. In both cases, the publication caused controversy.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/07/01/the-attribution-of-fossils-to-new-types-of-hominins-and-the-resulting-controversies-show-the-complex-history-of-humanity/

From 26 Jun: All the major players spent time in the Denisovan cave - Enlarge / Neanderthals and Denisovans probably enjoyed the view from Denisova cave, too. At variou... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/denisovans-were-the-first-hominins-to-arrive-at-denisova-cave/ #ancient-dna #archaeology #denisova-cave #denisovans #homo-sapiens #human-ancestors #human-evolution #human-migration #mitochondrial-dna #neanderthals #paleoanthropology #paleolithic #science #stone-tools

#paleontology #paleoanthropology An article published in the journal "Nature Ecology & Evolution" reports a genetic study on populations of Island Southeast Asia that shows the presence in their DNA of genes inherited from the #Denisovans, another human species now extinct, but no trace of interbreedings with other #hominins of which there are fossils.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/03/27/research-shows-that-populations-of-island-southeast-asia-inherited-genes-from-the-denisovans/

#genetics An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports a genetic study on Native Americans of South America concerning the identification of a number of their genetic regions that influenced their facial features. Some of them were inherited from the #Denisovans, another human species now extinct.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/02/12/native-americans-inherited-some-facial-features-from-the-denisovans/

#paleogenetics #hominins An article published in the journal "Science" reports the results of the sequencing of the Y chromosome, the one that determines the male sex among humans, of three #Neanderthals and two #Denisovans.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/09/30/neanderthal-and-denisovan-y-chromosome-sequencing-indicates-a-very-ancient-interbreeding-between-species

#paleonanthropology #genetics #paleogenetics #HomoSapiens #Denisovans #Neanderthals An article published in the journal "PLOS Genetics" reports a genetic study showing the traces of various interbreedings between different species of #hominins.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/08/12/genes-of-ancient-hominins-have-been-passed-on-to-denisovans-and-modern-humans-through-various-interbreedings

#genetics #paleogenetics #introgression #hominins An article published in the journal "Nature" reports a genetic study carried out using data obtained from 27,566 Icelanders to understand which parts of modern humans' genome contain genes inherited from #Neanderthals discovering genese inherited from #Denisovans as well.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/04/24/icelanders-are-a-mix-of-three-human-species

#paleoanthropology #paleontology #genetics An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports the traces of an interbreeding between the ancestors of #Neanderthals and #Denisovans with a population belonging to another species of #hominins called superarchaics because they probably separated from other humans about 2 million years ago.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/02/23/a-possible-interbreeding-between-the-ancestors-of-neanderthal-and-denisovans-and-other-hominins-from-a-more-ancient-species

#hominins #Denisovans An article published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" reports the results of the analysis of a tooth belonging to a Denisovan that is part of a mandible discovered on the Tibetan plateau, dating back 160,000 years ago. https://english.netmassimo.com/2019/07/12/an-ancient-molar-suggests-an-interbreeding-between-homo-sapiens-and-denisovans-in-asia

#paleontology #hominins #Denisovans An article published in the journal "Nature" reports evidence that a jaw discovered in Baishiya Karst Cave, in the Xiahe Chinese region, on the ibetan plateau, dated from about 160,000-year ago, belonged to a Denisovan. https://english.netmassimo.com/2019/05/04/a-fossil-jaw-discovered-on-the-tibetan-plateau-belonged-to-a-denisovan