The first bone fragment was found in the Denisova cave, which lent its name ... the world known to have been occupied by more than one hominin group. Fossils and debris from the many layers ...

It also allowed him to identify the first known hybrid hominin in history, Denisova 11, aka Denny, who died 50,000 years ago at the age of 13, and who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave," said co-author Frido Welker, from the ...

Thanks to them, the archaeologists who work in Denisova today, surrounded by walls spattered with recent graffiti, had to dig through deep layers of goat dung to get to the deposits that ...

That's an important part of the timeline, according to the study, because it suggests those two hominin groups were still thriving in Denisova Cave when the first Homo sapiens showed up 45,000 ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

She was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, and given the reference number A.L.288-1, which stands for “Afar locality 288,” the spot where she, the first hominin fossil ...

The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and smaller, blunt canines.

Svante Pääbo made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova. Stockholm: Nobel Prize for this year in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo for his ...

I’m an assistant professor of hominin environments and the PI of the Hominin Ecology research group. I’m an archaeologist by training and while I’m deeply interested in reconstructing and modelling ...

In the Hominin Ecology group at the Department of Geosciences and Geography, we explore human-environment interactions across large temporal and spatial scales to better understand how humans have ...

in years ago): 7.6—6 million BRAIN SIZE (est., in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp's) SPECIAL FEATURES: oldest known hominin; set apart from other fossil apes by smaller ...