Ancient tooth suggests Denisovans ventured far beyond Siberia

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Ancient tooth suggests Denisovans ventured far beyond Siberia

Molar found in Laos could be the first fossil evidence that the

hominin species was far-ranging and able to adapt to different climates.

Freda Kreier, Nature News, May 17, 2022

 

The Open Access paper is:

 

Demeter, F., Zanolli, C., Westaway, K.E., Joannes-Boyau, R.,

Duringer, P., Morley, M.W., Welker, F., Rüther, P.L., Skinner,;

M.M., McColl, H. and Gaunitz, C., 2022. A Middle Pleistocene

Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos. 

Nature Communications, 13(1), pp.1-17.

 

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Edited May 23, 2022 by Oxytropidoceras
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The identification of a molar from Laos as a Denisovan further extends the range of the Denisovan-type human, considering that the hominid mandible found in 1981 Xiahe County, Gansu, was a identified as a  Denisovan, and some paleoanthropologists have raised the possibility that the holotype of Homo longi (aka Dragon Man) is the first complete skull of the Denisovan.