Initially, scientists thought that only Papuans carried traces of Denisovan DNA, with up to 5 percent of their genome being ...

Previously, researchers compared human genomes against a reference population thought to have little Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA. Akey’s team found even those reference groups had trace amounts ...

According to a new study published yesterday (August 12) in Current Biology, however, an Indigenous group in the Philippines called the Ayta Magbukon have 30 to 40 percent more Denisovan DNA than ...

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.