High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields fossil of Denisovan

Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained. Group of Dongju Zhang (Lanzhou University) For over a century, we’ve had the opportunity to study Neanderthals: their bones, the stuff they left behind, their spread across Eurasia. When we finally sequenced their genome and discovered that we shared a genetic legacy … Read more