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A New Piece in the Human Evolutionary Puzzle

Fu et al. (2025), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A New Scientist article confirmed that a 146,000-year-old skull found 90 years ago in Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, an ancient hominin race. This discovery provides scientists with a clear image of Denisovans, which had faces similar to ours, but with prominent brow ridges, a smaller forehead and a long braincase. Researchers believe that Denisovans are more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals, based on the estimated age of our common ancestors. This finding will prompt a reevaluation of other East Asian fossils.

Denisovans were first identified in 2010 through a finger bone and teeth found in a cave in Siberia, Russia. Scientists matched mitochondrial DNA from the Siberian tooth to Denisovan proteins in the skull.

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