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Good to see you after all this time. Chinese scientists finally put a face on Denisovans

South China Morning PostPeople's Republic of China

Good to see you after all this time. Chinese scientists finally put a face on Denisovans

Chinese scientists have finally put a face onto the Denisovans, a mysterious species of ancient humans who were previously known only through the evidence of their DNA and fossil fragments. The hominids were thought to have lived in parts of Siberia and East and Southeast Asia thousands of years ago. The work of reconstructing their face was based on fossils excavated from Xujiayao, a major archaeological site in northern China’s Nihewan Basin, between 1976 and 1979. Scientists also confirmed...

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