The tooth of a young girl found in a cave in Laos has been revealed to belong to a group of prehistoric human relatives known as Denisovans, and the discovery is helping researchers better understand modern human evolution.
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A Denisovan girl’s fossil tooth may have been unearthed in LaosIf confirmed, this tooth joins only a handful of fossils from Denisovans, who are known from ancient DNA pegging them as close Neandertal relatives.
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Cave discovery in Laos could unlock more about human evolution's biggest mysteryResearchers believe the tooth belonged to a young female who lived at least 130,000 years ago and was likely a Denisovan -- an enigmatic group of early humans first identified in 2010.
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A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos - Nature CommunicationsEvidence for the presence of Homo during the Middle Pleistocene is limited in continental Southeast Asia. Here, the authors report a hominin molar from Tam Ngu Hao 2 (Cobra Cave), dated to 164–131 kyr. They use morphological and paleoproteomic analysis to show that it likely belonged to a female Denisovan.
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Cave discovery in Laos could unlock more about human evolution's biggest mysteryResearchers believe the tooth belonged to a young female who lived at least 130,000 years ago and was likely a Denisovan -- an enigmatic group of early humans first identified in 2010.
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A Denisovan girl’s fossil tooth may have been unearthed in LaosIf confirmed, this tooth joins only a handful of fossils from Denisovans, who are known from ancient DNA pegging them as close Neandertal relatives.
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