Denisovans may represent a new species of Homo or archaic subspecies of Homo sapiens (modern humans), but they are known from too few fossils to erect a proper taxon. Proactively proposed species names for Denisovans are

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Denisovans are known to have lived in Siberia, and the Xiahe mandible is the earliest recorded human presence on the Tibetan Plateau. Though

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Little is known of the precise anatomical features of the Denisovans since the only physical remains discovered so far are a finger bone, three teeth, long bonefragments, a partial

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Denisova Cave
Early Middle Paleolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave were characterized by discoidal (disk-like) cores and Kombewa cores, but Levallois cores and flakes were also present. There were scrapers, denticulate tools,

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• Homo longi – Archaic human from China, 146,000 BP
• Homo luzonensis – Archaic human from Luzon, Philippines
• Homo naledi – Small-brained South African archaic human

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• Media related to Denisova at Wikimedia Commons
• The Denisova Consortium's raw sequence data and alignments

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Analyses of modern humans genomes show past interbreeding with at least two groups of archaic humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, and that such interbreeding events occurred on multiple occasions. Comparisons of the Denisovan, Neanderthal, and modern

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