Scientists Discover Mysterious 150,000-Year-Old Bone From an Extinct Human Relative in Chinese Cave
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A search through more than 60,000 bone fragments uncovered the first confirmed Denisovan radius, a forearm bone offering rare clues to how these ancient human relatives were built. A forearm fragment from a cave in southwest China combines features resembling those of Neanderthals and modern humans, yet it belonged to neither. Proteins preserved in the [...]
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