Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained. (credit: Dongju Zhang’s group (Lanzhou University)) For well over a century, we had the opportunity to study Neanderthals—their bones, the items they left behind, their distribution across Eurasia. So, when we finally obtained the sequence of their genome and discovered that we share a genetic legacy with them, it was easy to place the discoveries into context.

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    Denisovan humans in the highest, most frigid peaks of the Tibetan Plateau faced harsh and severe living conditions.
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    An analysis of 2,500 mammalian bones found in the Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau has shed new light on how the Denisovans — our mysterious extinct cousins — subsisted in caves 3,280 metres ...
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    Little is known about the Denisovans. But a new study is revealing how these enigmatic ancient humans survived in the Tibetan plateau, one of Earth’s most extreme environments.
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    The finds come from a site called the Baishiya Karst Cave, which is perched on a cliff on the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. It's located at a high altitude (over 3,000 meters or nearly 11,000 feet ...
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