For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the ...
Dr Linda Ongaro, from Trinity's School of Genetics and Microbiology, explains what we know of the hominin species that ...
Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...
It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...
The tree of life is often more like a vine that snakes back on itself, with tendrils briefly embracing before they reach for the sky or wither into nothing.
Unlike Neanderthals, whose fossils are relatively abundant, Denisovan remains continue to be very scarce. Apart from that Siberian finger bone, the main other discovery was a jawbone found in ...
Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based ...
Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...
A recently published review of the existing research on Denisovan DNA by Trinity College Dublin population geneticists Linda Ongaro and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez brings us up to date on how our own ...