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RSS FeedsFirst glimpse at what ancient Denisovans may have looked like, using DNA methylation data
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

 
 

19 september 2019 17:05:47

 
First glimpse at what ancient Denisovans may have looked like, using DNA methylation data
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)
 


If you could travel back in time 100,000 years, you`d find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our Denisovan relatives might have looked like had been anyone`s guess for a simple reason: the entire collection of Denisovan remains includes a pinky bone, three teeth, and a lower jaw. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Cell have produced reconstructions of these long-lost relatives based on patterns of methylation in their ancient DNA.


 
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