Denisovan

773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans more

Researchers reveal the dynamics of Denisovan ancestry in Eurasians over the past 40,000 years more

Scientists recover an ancient woman’s DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant more

The director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig is honoured for his pioneering work in the field of palaeogenetics, of which he is considered the founder more

A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations more

Sediment DNA tracks 300,000 years of hominin and animal presence at Denisova Cave more

Researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 27.000 Icelanders to find out which parts of our genomes contain Neandertal DNA more

Denisovan mandible likely represents the earliest hominin fossil on the Tibetan Plateau more

Newly-sequenced genome sheds light on interactions between ancient hominins more

Genetic evidence suggests further migration to Europe 220,000 and 470,000 years ago more

Analysis of nuclear DNA from Sima de los Huesos hominins provides evidence of their relationship to Neandertals more

Researchers discover fragments of Neandertal DNA in the genome of a 45,000-year-old modern human from Siberia more

Researchers compile definitive list of the DNA sequence changes that make us human more

Max Planck researchers sequence the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Spain more

Ancient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans more

An interview with Matthias Meyer from the Max Planck Institut of Evolutionary Anthropology about the new analyses of the Denisova genome more

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan, a representative of an Asian group of extinct humans related to Neandertals. more

Contrary to what was previously assumed, modern humans may have populated Asia in more than one migration wave more

Genome of extinct Siberian hominin sheds new light on modern human origins more

Bence Viola from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is on the trail of a new type of hominid in the Altai Mountains more