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Contrary to popular belief that high altitudes were inhabited only by modern humans less than 40,000 years ago, fossil remains conclusively prove that Denisovans lived there 160,000 years ago. Denisovans…
A study published a few days ago in the journal Nature Genetics has found the presence of a third and a new ancestor to humans — a sibling of the…
Published in The Hindu on April 10, 2010 Nearly 10 years after the genome of a living individual was first sequenced, and shortly after the sequencing of the genome of…
Published in The Hindu on March 25, 2010 A team of scientists has successfully sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a hominin who had lived in the Altai Mountain region of…
