Reconstruction of a Denisovan girl based on the tip of a pinky bone

Researchers reveal what the mysterious Denisovans looked like based on the tip of a pinky bone. Credit: Maayan Harel. The study, published in Cell and with the participation of researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), provides for the first time a reconstruction of the physical look of this human population still totally unknown. The results, obtained with a novel method of genomic analysis, reveal up to 56 physical features of Denisova hominin only from molecular data. With the “la