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Denisovan DNA helped first Americans adapt, study says
A unique segment of Denisovan DNA, inherited through Neanderthals, was favored by natural selection and may have contributed to the adaptation of the first peoples to life in the Americas.
Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
Love Dalén, Stockholm University and Anders Götherström, Stockholm University The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022…
Fossilized Handprints on Ancient Tibetan “Mud” Could Be the Oldest Parietal Art
Researchers publishing in the journal Science Bulletin may have found the oldest evidence of parietal art—immobile artwork commonly…
Southeast Asia Had East Asian Heritage Before the Austronesians Ever Got There
It has long been recognized that the Austronesians, an ancient ethnolinguistic lineage of humans, were at least one…
A Filipino Indigenous Population May Possess the Most Denisovan Ancestry
Since their discovery just a few decades ago, the Denisovans have become a subject of heated discussion and…