Denisovans, or Denisova hominins, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene, from about 200,000 to 32,000 years ago. Most of what is known comes from DNA, and no formal species name has been established. The first individual was identified in 2010 from mitochondrial DNA in a juvenile finger bone excavated in 2008 from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Nuclear DNA shows close affinities with Neanderthals. Other specimens come from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, Tam Ngu Hao 2 Cave in Laos and Harbin, and DNA suggests dark skin, eyes and hair.
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Annamite Mountains of Laos
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are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene, approximately 200,000-32,000 years ago
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Annamite Mountains of Laos
Body size
we have used the mean of these two estimates, 78.6 kg, as the estimated body weight
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that ranged across Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene
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are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene, approximately 200,000-32,000 years ago
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Child Taxon Of: Hominidae, Phylogeny, Fossil list, DenisovanQuote, Child Taxon Of: Hominidae, Phylogeny, Fossil list, Denisovan
In addition to the extant species and subspecies, archaeologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists have discovered and classified numerous extinct great ape species as below, based on the taxonomy shown.
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