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| Tango01 | 04 May 2019 3:25 p.m. PST |
….a Mysterious Species that Mated With Modern Humans "In 2010, archaeologists found evidence of a previously unknown hominin, the Denisovans, in a Siberian cave. Researchers are now reporting the discovery of a 160,000-year-old Denisovan jawbone pulled from a cave on the Tibetan Plateau. The fossil is now the first evidence of this mysterious human species outside of Siberia, and the earliest evidence of a hominin presence in this part of the world. This Denisovan mandible was discovered nearly 40 years ago by a monk who was wandering through Baishiya Karst Cave in Xiahe, China. The cave is located on the Tibetan Plateau, which over 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) from Denisova cave in Siberia—the only other place in the world where Denisovan fossils have been unearthed. The details of this discovery were published today in Nature…#
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