New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

by Philippa Kaur 18 November 2025, 17:00 21 Views

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X.

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Source: Humans - newscientist.com

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age

Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

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