DNA in Fossilized Tooth Reveals Mysterious Human Cousin, the Denisovans
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 05:12
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A tooth fossil, believed to be about 110,000 years old, has yielded DNA from a vanished branch of the human tree, mysterious cousins called the Denisovans. The tooth was found in a cave in Siberia in 2010. Scientists describe their newest Denisovan DNA analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.