Stéphane Mazières, a population geneticist and co-author of the study, stated that if Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having ...

The molar of a Denisovan girl who lived more than 130,000 years ago may help answer how indigenous people living in Australia and other Pacific island nations share DNA with the early-human species.

Until recently, scientists thought the modern humans with the highest proportion of Denisovan ancestry lived in Papua New Guinea and Australia. According to a new study published yesterday (August 12) ...