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#FunFact: Mammals indigenous to the high Tibetan plateau all have similar mutations to the same EPAS-1 “gene”. Horses, yaks, pigs, dogs, and humans all evolved convergently in a way that provides larger and more red blood cells that carry more hemoglobin than do related animals at lower elevations. (Horses did it best.) The human mutation originated in the #Denisovan populations in the Altai region of eurasia ≈80KYA.
From “Horses”, by Ludovic Orlando. #evolution #genetics #science #horses

The #Australian Aboriginal population has the highest % of #Denisovan ancestry amongst extant #Human groups.

(Going off memory here of the most recent publications I'd read.)

The full story of human groups and human migration is a much larger and more complicated story than the average person can even imagine.

Source: ScienceAlert
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Ancient Jomon DNA reveals a lost East Asian lineage with the lowest Denisovan ancestry in the region

A new genetic study is rewriting what researchers know about early human migrations in East Asia, showing that the prehistoric Jomon people of Japan carried far less Denisovan DNA than any other ancient or modern population in the region...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/jomon-dna-reveals-low-denisovan-ancestry/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Denisovan #jomon #humanevolution #anthropology

The 146,000-year-old cranium of an individual with Denisovan DNA discovered in China. Credit: Fu et al, Cell (2025); CC-by-4.0

Tracking #Denisovan ancestry in East #Asian populations with different histories of contact

https://www.mpg.de/25634317/1030-evan-some-early-east-asians-did-not-meet-denisovans-150495-x

A new study links the Harbin cranium to Denisovans using DNA hidden in dental calculus. 🦷🧬 The mtDNA connects to Siberian lineages and suggests Denisovans spread widely across Pleistocene Asia. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #Denisovan #archaic #mtDNA #calculus
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.040

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 19: A #Denisovan skull identified this year reveals the face of our close relatives (comparable to #Neanderthals). https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-denisovan-skull.html #science #anthropology #fossils #humans #genome #palaeoanthropology #china

Le crâne « vieux d'un million d'années » de Chine est-il un Denisovan ou autre chose ?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/is-the-million-year-old-skull-from-china-a-denisovan-or-something-else/
#archéologie #ADN #humanité #évolution #humains #Chine #Denisovan #crâne #recherche #science

#Denisovan protection from tropical diseases in our #DNA

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-dna-ancient-denisovan-ancestors-tropical.html

Candidate #Denisovan #fossils identified through gene regulatory phenotyping

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2513968122

#science #palaeoAnthropology #humans #genome

An incredible #Denisovan #skull is upending the story of #human #evolution

Now it turns out they, not #Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives

#paleontology #history

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492337-an-incredible-denisovan-skull-is-upending-the-story-of-human-evolution/

An incredible #Denisovan #skull is upending the story of #human #evolution Now it turns out they, not #Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives #paleontology #history www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

An incredible Denisovan skull ...

Even more intriguing -- how #Indigenous First #Americans got their #mucous variant (MUC19), from #Denisovan and then #Neanderthal heritage

'This haplotype features multiple Denisovan variants, although it likely entered human populations through a Neanderthal intermediate. The patterns of positive selection indicate that this introgression occurred in Indigenous Americans during their migration to the Americas. How this change was adaptive for these populations has yet to be determined, but this work does disentangle a complex selection signal in these understudied groups.'

#palaeogenomics

https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-ancient-bones-reveals-how-indigenous-americans-got-their-mucus

𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲
Revolutionary study reveals how extinct Denisovan humans left a genetic gift that helped Indigenous Americans survive in the New World.
#Denisovan #evolution #dna #HumanOrigins #humanevolution #ancientorigins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/inherited-denisovan-dna-0022369