A prehistoric skull that was discovered in China in the 1970s probably belongs to a Denisovan, according to the results of a new study. Known as Dali Man, the specimen was previously the subject of a taxonomical debate and had been tentatively identified as either Homo erectus or an archaic Homo sapiens , yet now appears to display almost all of the hallmarks of our extinct sister lineage. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

First identified from DNA retrieved from a finger bone found in Siberia's Denisova Cave in 2010, Denisovans are difficult to spot in the fossil record because we don’t yet have enough remains to know what they looked like. However, over the past 15 years, bits and pieces of Denisovans have been

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