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185 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Aeta people, Akademgorodok, Altai Mountains, Amelogenin, Ancient DNA, Ancient protein, Andaman Islands, Annamite Range, Archaeology, Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, Archaic humans, Artifact (archaeology), Australopithecine, Autosome, Baishiya Karst Cave, Base pair, Bharal, Bhikkhu, Blade (archaeology), Bone tool, Burin (lithic flake), Canidae, Carbonate, Cell (journal), Chen Fahu, Chibanian, Chimpanzee, Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor, Chisel, Chlorite group, Chris Stringer, Chromosome 11, Coalescent theory, Collagen, Current Biology, Dai people, Dali Man, Deciduous teeth, Denisova Cave, Denny (hybrid hominin), Dental arch, Denticulate tool, DNA, DNA methylation, DNA sequencing, Early modern human, East Asia, East Asian people, Elk, ... Expand index (135 more) »
- Altai Krai
- Homo fossils
- Human populations
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
- Prehistoric Asia
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
See Denisovan and Aboriginal Australians
Aeta people
Aeta (Ayta), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon island in the Philippines.
Akademgorodok
Akademgorodok (p, "Academic Town") is a part of the Sovetsky District of the city of Novosibirsk, Russia, located south of the city center and about west of Koltsovo.
See Denisovan and Akademgorodok
Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains, also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters.
See Denisovan and Altai Mountains
Amelogenin
Amelogenins are a group of protein isoforms produced by alternative splicing or proteolysis from the AMELX gene, on the X chromosome, and also the AMELY gene in males, on the Y chromosome.
Ancient DNA
Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient sources (typically specimens, but also environmental DNA).
Ancient protein
Ancient proteins are complex mixtures and the term palaeoproteomics is used to characterise the study of proteomes in the past.
See Denisovan and Ancient protein
Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region.
See Denisovan and Andaman Islands
Annamite Range
The Annamite Range or the Annamese Mountains (Chaîne annamitique; ພູ ຫລວງ Phou Luang; Dãy (núi) Trường Sơn) is a major mountain range of eastern Indochina, extending approximately through Laos, Vietnam, and a small area in northeast Cambodia.
See Denisovan and Annamite Range
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia (Археология, Этнография и Антропология Евразии) is a bilingual peer-reviewed academic journal covering anthropological and archaeological studies on Eurasia. Denisovan and archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia are institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS.
See Denisovan and Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
Archaic humans
Archaic humans is a broad category denoting all species of the genus Homo that are not Homo sapiens (which are known as modern humans). Denisovan and Archaic humans are human populations.
See Denisovan and Archaic humans
Artifact (archaeology)
An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.
See Denisovan and Artifact (archaeology)
Australopithecine
The australopithecines, formally Australopithecina or Hominina, are generally any species in the related genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus.
See Denisovan and Australopithecine
Autosome
An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
Baishiya Karst Cave
Baishiya Karst Cave is a high-altitude paleoanthropological site and a Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary located on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau in Xiahe County, Gansu, China.
See Denisovan and Baishiya Karst Cave
Base pair
A base pair (bp) is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds.
Bharal
The bharal (Pseudois nayaur), also called the blue sheep, is a caprine native to the high Himalayas.
Bhikkhu
A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism.
Blade (archaeology)
In archaeology, a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core.
See Denisovan and Blade (archaeology)
Bone tool
In archaeology, a bone tool is a tool created from bone.
Burin (lithic flake)
Burin from the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) (ca. 29,000–22,000 BP) In archaeology and the field of lithic reduction, a burin (from the French burin, meaning "cold chisel" or modern engraving burin) is a type of stone tool, a handheld lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans used for carving or finishing wood or bone tools or weapons, and sometimes for engraving images.
See Denisovan and Burin (lithic flake)
Canidae
Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.
Carbonate
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.
Cell (journal)
Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research papers across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences.
See Denisovan and Cell (journal)
Chen Fahu
Chen Fahu (born December 1962) is a Chinese geographer, geologist and climatologist who has served as Director of the Institute of Tibet Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2018.
Chibanian
The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.
Chimpanzee
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.
Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor
The chimpanzee–human last common ancestor (CHLCA) is the last common ancestor shared by the extant Homo (human) and Pan (chimpanzee and bonobo) genera of Hominini.
See Denisovan and Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor
Chisel
A chisel is a wedged hand tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade, for carving or cutting a hard material (e.g. wood, stone, or metal).
Chlorite group
The chlorites are the group of phyllosilicate minerals common in low-grade metamorphic rocks and in altered igneous rocks.
See Denisovan and Chlorite group
Chris Stringer
Christopher Brian Stringer (born 1947) is a British physical anthropologist noted for his work on human evolution.
See Denisovan and Chris Stringer
Chromosome 11
Chromosome 11 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans.
See Denisovan and Chromosome 11
Coalescent theory
Coalescent theory is a model of how alleles sampled from a population may have originated from a common ancestor.
See Denisovan and Coalescent theory
Collagen
Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.
Current Biology
Current Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
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Dai people
The Dai people (Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; ᨴᩱ/ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿ; ໄຕ; ไท; တႆး) are several Tai-speaking ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of China's Yunnan Province.
Dali Man
Dali man is the remains of a late Homo erectus or archaic Homo sapiens who lived in the late-mid Pleistocene epoch. Denisovan and Dali Man are homo fossils.
Deciduous teeth
Deciduous teeth or primary teeth, also informally known as baby teeth, milk teeth, or temporary teeth,Illustrated Dental Embryology, Histology, and Anatomy, Bath-Balogh and Fehrenbach, Elsevier, 2011, page 255 are the first set of teeth in the growth and development of humans and other diphyodonts, which include most mammals but not elephants, kangaroos, or manatees, which are polyphyodonts.
See Denisovan and Deciduous teeth
Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave (translit; translit) is a cave in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai Mountains, Siberian Federal District, Russia.
See Denisovan and Denisova Cave
Denny (hybrid hominin)
Denny (Denisova 11) is an ~90,000 year old fossil specimen belonging to a ~13-year-old Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid girl. Denisovan and Denny (hybrid hominin) are homo fossils.
See Denisovan and Denny (hybrid hominin)
Dental arch
The dental arches are the two arches (crescent arrangements) of teeth, one on each jaw, that together constitute the dentition.
Denticulate tool
In archaeology, a denticulate tool is a stone tool containing one or more edges that are worked into multiple notched shapes (or teeth), much like the toothed edge of a saw.
See Denisovan and Denticulate tool
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
DNA methylation
DNA methylation is a biological process by which methyl groups are added to the DNA molecule.
See Denisovan and DNA methylation
DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA.
See Denisovan and DNA sequencing
Early modern human
Early modern human (EMH), or anatomically modern human (AMH), are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans, from extinct archaic human species.
See Denisovan and Early modern human
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
East Asian people
East Asian people (also East Asians or Northeast Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
See Denisovan and East Asian people
Elk
The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.
Environmental DNA
Environmental DNA or eDNA is DNA that is collected from a variety of environmental samples such as soil, seawater, snow or air, rather than directly sampled from an individual organism.
See Denisovan and Environmental DNA
EPAS1
Endothelial PAS domain-containing protein 1 (EPAS1, also known as hypoxia-inducible factor-2alpha (HIF-2α)) is a protein that is encoded by the EPAS1 gene in mammals.
Ethnic groups in South Asia
Ethnic groups in South Asia are ethnolinguistic groupings within the diverse populations of South Asia, including the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
See Denisovan and Ethnic groups in South Asia
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
F1 hybrid
F1 hybrid (also known as filial 1 hybrid) is the first filial generation of offspring of distinctly different parental types.
Finger numbering
The first finger is an ambiguous term in the English language due to two competing finger numbering systems that can be used.
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Gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings.
Genetic diversity
Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.
See Denisovan and Genetic diversity
Genetic drift
Genetic drift, also known as random genetic drift, allelic drift or the Wright effect, refers to random fluctuations in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population.
See Denisovan and Genetic drift
Geneticist
A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms.
Haplotype
A haplotype (haploid genotype) is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent.
Hermit
A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion.
Hoabinhian
The Hoabinhian is a lithic techno-complex of archaeological sites associated with assemblages in Southeast Asia from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene, dated to –2000 BCE.
Hominini
The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines).
Homo
Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans) and a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans.
Homo erectus
Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago.
See Denisovan and Homo erectus
Homo floresiensis
Homo floresiensis also known as "Flores Man") is an extinct species of small archaic human that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.
See Denisovan and Homo floresiensis
Homo habilis
Homo habilis ('handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3 million years ago to 1.65 million years ago (mya).
See Denisovan and Homo habilis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo heidelbergensis (also H. erectus heidelbergensis, H. sapiens heidelbergensis) is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human which existed during the Middle Pleistocene.
See Denisovan and Homo heidelbergensis
Homo longi
Homo longi is an extinct species of archaic human identified from a nearly complete skull, nicknamed 'Dragon Man', from Harbin on the Northeast China Plain, dating to at minimum 146,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene.
Homo luzonensis
Homo luzonensis, also known as Callao Man and locally called "Ubag" after a mythical caveman, is an extinct, possibly pygmy, species of archaic human from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippines.
See Denisovan and Homo luzonensis
Homo rudolfensis
Homo rudolfensis is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2 million years ago (mya).
See Denisovan and Homo rudolfensis
Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
See Denisovan and Human evolution
Human leukocyte antigen
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system or complex of genes on chromosome 6 in humans which encode cell-surface proteins responsible for regulation of the immune system.
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Hybrid incompatibility
Hybrid incompatibility is a phenomenon in plants and animals, wherein offspring produced by the mating of two different species or populations have reduced viability and/or are less able to reproduce.
See Denisovan and Hybrid incompatibility
Immune system
The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.
See Denisovan and Immune system
Indigenous people of New Guinea
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians.
See Denisovan and Indigenous people of New Guinea
Indonesians
Indonesians (Indonesian: orang Indonesia) are citizens or people who are identified with the country of Indonesia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background.
Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans occurred during the Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic.
See Denisovan and Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
Introgression
Introgression, also known as introgressive hybridization, in genetics is the transfer of genetic material from one species into the gene pool of another by the repeated backcrossing of an interspecific hybrid with one of its parent species.
See Denisovan and Introgression
Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Jahai people
The Jahai or Jehai people are an indigenous people (Orang Asli) of the Semang people group found in Perak and Kelantan, Malaysia and parts of Thailand.
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Japanese people
are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago.
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Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin (born 30 November 1953) is a French paleoanthropologist.
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Jinniushan
Jinniushan is a Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological site, dating to around 260,000 BP, most famous for its archaic hominin fossils.
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause (born July 17, 1980, in Leinefelde) is a German biochemist with a research focus on historical infectious diseases and human evolution.
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Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology was founded in 2003 and is published by World Scientific.
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Journal of Human Evolution
The Journal of Human Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that concentrates on publishing the highest quality papers covering all aspects of human evolution.
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Juvenile (organism)
A juvenile is an individual organism (especially an animal) that has not yet reached its adult form, sexual maturity or size.
See Denisovan and Juvenile (organism)
Katerina Douka
Katerina Douka is an archaeological scientist whose work focuses on the spatio-temporal pattern of human dispersals and extinctions across Eurasia, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern Homo sapiens.
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Lanzhou University
Lanzhou University is a public university in Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.
See Denisovan and Late Pleistocene
Leipzig
Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.
Levallois technique
The Levallois technique is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago during the Middle Palaeolithic period.
See Denisovan and Levallois technique
Lipid metabolism
Lipid metabolism is the synthesis and degradation of lipids in cells, involving the breakdown and storage of fats for energy and the synthesis of structural and functional lipids, such as those involved in the construction of cell membranes.
See Denisovan and Lipid metabolism
Lithic core
In archaeology, a lithic core is a distinctive artifact that results from the practice of lithic reduction.
Lithic flake
In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis.
See Denisovan and Lithic flake
Long bone
The long bones are those that are longer than they are wide.
Lower Paleolithic
The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Denisovan and Lower Paleolithic are Paleolithic.
See Denisovan and Lower Paleolithic
Maba Man
Maba Man is a pre-modern hominin whose remains were discovered in 1958 in caves near the town called Maba, near Shaoguan city in the northern part of Guangdong province, China. Denisovan and Maba Man are homo fossils.
Mandibular symphysis
In human anatomy, the facial skeleton of the skull the external surface of the mandible is marked in the median line by a faint ridge, indicating the mandibular symphysis (Latin: symphysis menti) or line of junction where the two lateral halves of the mandible typically fuse in the first year of life (6–9 months after birth).
See Denisovan and Mandibular symphysis
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
Marmot
Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, with 15 species living in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
See Denisovan and Matrilineality
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997.
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Melanesians
Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands.
Mezmaiskaya cave
Mezmaiskaya Cave (Мезмайская пещера) is a prehistoric cave site overlooking the right bank of the Sukhoi Kurdzhips (a tributary of the Kurdzhips River) in the southern Russian Republic of Adygea, located in the northwestern foothills of the North Caucasus in the Caucasus Mountains system.
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Michael Shunkov
Michael V. Shunkov is a Russian archaeologist and member of the Russian Academy of Science working at Novosibirsk State University.
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Middle Paleolithic
The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Denisovan and Middle Paleolithic are Paleolithic.
See Denisovan and Middle Paleolithic
Millennium
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
See Denisovan and Mitochondrial DNA
Molar (tooth)
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.
See Denisovan and Molar (tooth)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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Narmada Human
The Narmada Human, originally the Narmada Man, is a species of extinct human that lived in central India during the Middle and Late Pleistocene.
See Denisovan and Narmada Human
National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Natural killer cell
Natural killer cells, also known as NK cells or large granular lymphocytes (LGL), are a type of cytotoxic lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Nature Communications
Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010.
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Nature Genetics
Nature Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio.
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Neanderthal
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
Neanderthal genetics
Genetic studies on Neanderthal ancient DNA became possible in the late 1990s.
See Denisovan and Neanderthal genetics
Near Oceania
Near Oceania is the part of Oceania that features greater biodiversity, due to the islands and atolls being closer to each other.
See Denisovan and Near Oceania
Negrito
The term Negrito refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.
Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA (nDNA), or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid, is the DNA contained within each cell nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
Nucleotide
Nucleotides are organic molecules composed of a nitrogenous base, a pentose sugar and a phosphate.
Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Onge
The Onge (also Önge, Ongee, and Öñge) are an Andamanese ethnic group, indigenous to the Andaman Islands in Southeast Asia at the Bay of Bengal, currently administered by India.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Parietal bone
The parietal bones are two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint known as a cranial suture, form the sides and roof of the neurocranium.
See Denisovan and Parietal bone
Penghu 1
Penghu 1 is a fossil jaw (mandible) belonging to an extinct hominin species of the genus Homo from Taiwan which lived in the middle-late Pleistocene. Denisovan and Penghu 1 are homo fossils.
Phalanx bone
The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.
See Denisovan and Phalanx bone
Phospholipid
Phospholipids are a class of lipids whose molecule has a hydrophilic "head" containing a phosphate group and two hydrophobic "tails" derived from fatty acids, joined by an alcohol residue (usually a glycerol molecule).
See Denisovan and Phospholipid
PLOS Genetics
PLOS Genetics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal established in 2005 and published by the Public Library of Science.
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PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
Polynesians
Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
See Denisovan and Radiocarbon dating
Red deer
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.
Relict (biology)
In biogeography and paleontology, a relict is a population or taxon of organisms that was more widespread or more diverse in the past.
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Rock art
In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces.
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
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SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science Advances
Science Advances is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal established in early 2015 and published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Science Bulletin
Science Bulletin is a multidisciplinary scientific journal co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences.
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Scraper (archaeology)
In prehistoric archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
See Denisovan and Scraper (archaeology)
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SBRAS) was established by the Decree of the Government of the USSR which was based on the proposal of Mikhail Lavrentyev, Sergei Sobolev and Sergey Khristianovich in 1957 as a regional division of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, replacing a previous small branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Spotted hyena
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as the laughing hyena, is a hyena species, currently classed as the sole extant member of the genus Crocuta, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Stratigraphic unit
A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
TBX15
T-box transcription factor TBX15 is protein that is encoded in humans by the Tbx15 gene, mapped to Chromosome 3 in mice and Chromosome 1 in humans.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tianyuan man
Tianyuan man (p) are the remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit East Asia.
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Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet.
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.
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Toalean culture
The Toalean (or Toalian or Toala in Indonesian) people were hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Indonesian island of Sulawesi during the Mid- to Late-Holocene period prior to the spread of Austronesian Neolithic farmers some 3,500 years ago from mainland Asia.
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Trace amine-associated receptor
Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs), sometimes referred to as trace amine receptors (TAs or TARs), are a class of G protein-coupled receptors that were discovered in 2001.
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Travertine
Travertine is a form of terrestrial limestone deposited around mineral springs, especially hot springs.
Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Denisovan and Upper Paleolithic are Paleolithic.
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Uranium–thorium dating
Uranium–thorium dating, also called thorium-230 dating, uranium-series disequilibrium dating or uranium-series dating, is a radiometric dating technique established in the 1960s which has been used since the 1970s to determine the age of calcium carbonate materials such as speleothem or coral.
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Vindija Cave
Vindija Cave is an archaeological site associated with Neanderthals and modern humans, located in the municipality of Donja Voća, northern Croatia.
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Wallace Line
The Wallace line or Wallace's line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist T.H. Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay Archipelago and the Indo-Australian Archipelago.
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WARS2
Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WARS2 gene.
West Asia
West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.
Wild yak
The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large, wild bovine native to the Himalayas.
Woolly rhinoceros
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch.
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X chromosome
The X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes in many organisms, including mammals, and is found in both males and females.
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Xiahe mandible
The Xiahe mandible is a hominin fossil jaw (mandible) discovered in Baishiya Karst Cave, located on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau in Xiahe County, Gansu, China. Denisovan and Xiahe mandible are homo fossils.
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Xujiayao
Xujiayao, located in the Nihewan Basin in China, is an early Late Pleistocene paleoanthropological site famous for its archaic hominin fossils.
Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms.
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Zhang Dongju
Zhang Dongju is a Chinese archeologist and an associate professor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University.
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ZooMS
Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry, commonly referred to by the abbreviation ZooMS, is a scientific method that identifies animal species by means of characteristic peptide sequences in the protein collagen.
See also
Altai Krai
- Administrative divisions of Altai Krai
- Altai Krai
- Altai Krai Police
- Cochylimorpha centralasiae
- Culture of Altai Krai
- Denisovan
- Geography of Altai Krai
- History of Altai Krai
- Politics of Altai Krai
Homo fossils
- Dali Man
- Denisovan
- Denny (hybrid hominin)
- Florisbad Skull
- Gawis cranium
- Happisburgh footprints
- Hualongdong people
- Iho Eleru
- Kabwe 1
- LD 350-1
- Lagar Velho 1
- List of human evolution fossils
- Maba Man
- Masol (paleontology)
- Ndutu cranium
- Penghu 1
- Salé cranium
- Skhul and Qafzeh hominins
- Steinheim skull
- Vero man
- Xiahe mandible
- Yunxian Man
- Zuojhen Man
Human populations
- Anatomically modern humans
- Archaic humans
- Clans
- Demography
- Denisovan
- Ethnic groups
- Race (human categorization)
- Tribes
- World population
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
- Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
- Denisovan
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
- Siberian Ice Maiden
Prehistoric Asia
- 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
- Ancient Asian history
- Dalma culture
- Denisovan
- History of Central Asia
- Igeum-dong
- Last Glacial Maximum refugia
- Late Bronze Age collapse
- Prehistoric Asia
- Prehistoric Korea
- Prehistoric Malaysia
- Prehistoric South Asia
- Prehistoric Southeast Asia
- Prehistoric Thailand
- Prehistory of Iran
- Prehistory of Myanmar
- Prehistory of Sri Lanka
- Prehistory of the Middle East
- Prehistory of the Philippines
- Proto-Malay
- Songguk-ri
References
Also known as Denisova hominid, Denisova hominin, Denisova hominine, Denisovan Admixture, Denisovan hominin, Denisovans, Denisovian, Denisovians, H. altaiensis, H. denisova, H. denisovan, H. sapiens denisova, H. sapiens denisovan, Homo Denisova, Homo Denisovan, Homo altaiensis, Homo ataiensis, Homo denisovensis, Homo sapiens denisova, Homo sapiens denisovan, Homo sapiens ssp. Denisova, Homo sp. Altai, Woman X.