Excavators work in Denisova Cave in Russia. The view from above the Denisova Cave archaeological site. (Bence Viola/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)Krause, Pääbo and their colleagues named the new hominid after Denisova Cave, where the 40,000-year-old remains were found. But they didn’t resemble the genes of the “Altai Neanderthal” who had lived in Denisova Cave thousands of years before. And yet, the evidence suggests that when different hominids did meet, they recognized one another as fellow humans.

Source: Washington Post August 22, 2018 17:01 UTC