denisovan
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3ADJ.
individual, modern
VERB + DENISOVAN
belongs, found, types
DENISOVAN + NOUN
dr, man, neanderthal, others, paabo
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adj
Of or pertaining to an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
Denisovan Man is the first human relative to have been identified purely from DNA, extracted from the bone and a tooth found in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.
A molar tooth, measuring around 1.5cm on each side and found at the site in 2000, also belongs to a Denisovan individual.
noun
A member of an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
And yet, despite their having the entire genome of a Denisovan, Dr. Paabo cannot say much yet about what they were like.
…this was only the third fossil ever found of a Denisovan, the others being the bit of finger bone and another molar, also from Denisova cave.
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6Denisovan Man is the first human relative to have been identified purely from DNA, extracted from the bone and a tooth found in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.
WiktionaryA molar tooth, measuring around 1.5cm on each side and found at the site in 2000, also belongs to a Denisovan individual.
WiktionaryIt is the only known place on the planet where three types of humans — Denisovan, Neanderthal and modern — lived, probably not all at once.
WiktionaryAnd yet, despite their having the entire genome of a Denisovan, Dr. Paabo cannot say much yet about what they were like.
Wiktionary…this was only the third fossil ever found of a Denisovan, the others being the bit of finger bone and another molar, also from Denisova cave.
WiktionaryThe researchers were even able to split and analyze the two strands of the Denisovan's DNA, and thus differentiate the contributions of each parent.
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