Finger Points to New Type of Human

摘要

By sequencing DNA from an ancient finger bone, researchers have confirmed the discovery of a new type of human that lived in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia more than 30,000 years ago. The Denisovans, named after the Denisova cave in which the bone was found, lived at roughly the same time modern humans and Neandertals roamed the region but were more closely related to Neandertals.