Tag: Denisovans
How midnight digs at a holy Tibetan cave opened a window to prehistoric humans living on the roof of the world
Picture: Han Yuanyuan
A mountainside cave now used as a Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary was home to prehistoric humans known as Denisovans for tens of millennia.
Our painstaking...
Rethinking Homo sapiens? The story of our origins gets dizzyingly complicated
Homo sapiens evolved in the East African rift valley…
but then what happened? 26781577@N07/flickr
You might say it’s the ultimate prize of science, to discover when, where...