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Denisovan man

A well-preserved hairy leg of a woolly mammoth. Source: ABC News, who received the photo from Lab Dalen at Stockholm University

The strange story of Yakinaf the mammoth - maybe she will come back to life

Prof. George Church is trying to clone a woolly mammoth that was trapped in the Siberian ice 52 thousand years ago
Monks in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Genomic study of ancient human remains sheds light on human evolution at the Tibetan plateau

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Beginning 4,500 years ago, three very different Tibetan populations occupied the northeastern, south-central, and southern and southwestern regions of the plateau, but they carry a common gene that allows them to function in high, low-oxygen areas.
Close-up of a tooth of a Denisovan girl. Credit: Fabrice Demeter (University of Copenhagen/CNRS Paris)

An Ancient Tooth of a Girl Discovered in a Cave Cracks the Mystery of Denisovan Man, a Brother Race of Modern Man

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Denisovan man, a sister race of modern man, lived in Laos 164,000 to 131,000 years ago with important implications for populations outside of Africa and Australia
Skull of a Neanderthal who was hit in the head. Evidence of ancient violence. Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Were other human species the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?

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An illustration depicting Denisovan man. Courtesy of Maayan Harel and CELL

The tip of a pinky, that's all the researchers from the Hebrew University needed to reconstruct what the Denisovan man looked like

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DNA tests made it possible to discover a mixture of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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A poster showing the theme of the 2017 Dan David Prize: Archeology and Natural Sciences. From the Dan David Prize website

Two of the researchers who strengthened the connection between the sciences and archeology won the Dan David prize for the dimension of past time

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Prof. Israel Finkelstein, winner of the corresponding prize in 2006, described the revolution passing through the world of archeology and how two researchers from the natural sciences won the Dan David Prize for 2017 in the past tense dimension in the field
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