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Evolutionary study suggests prehistoric human fossils ‘hiding in plain sight’ in Southeast Asia – The Conversation AU
The ancestors of modern-day people living on Southeast Asian islands likely interbred with a prehistoric species called Denisovans – raising the possibility of…
Island Southeast Asia has one of the largest and most intriguing hominin fossil records in the world. But our new research suggests there is another prehistoric human species waiting to be discovered in this region: a group called Denisovans, which have so far only been found thousands of kilometres away in caves in Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau.
Our study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, reveals genetic evidence that modern humans (Homo sapiens) interbred with Denisovans in this region,…
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