A PRIMEIRA EVIDÊNCIA DOS DENISOVANOS, ESPÉCIE IRMÃ DOS HUMANOS, NO SUDESTE DA ÁSIA

#CienciaNews #OlaCiencia #denisovans #fossiltooth #SoutheastAsia #NatureCommunications Fossil Tooth Of Young Female Is First Evidence Of Mysterious Denisovans In Southeast Asia A tooth believed to belong to a mysterious “sister species” of humans — the Denisovans — has been discovered in an unexpected part of the world: Laos in Southeast Asia. This is the first fossil evidence of these early hominins in Southeast Asia, nearly 4,600 kilometers (2,850 miles) from the Denisova cave in Siberia where the first fossils of this species were found. In a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, an international team of researchers details the discovery of a fossilized molar found in a newly discovered limestone cave, named Tam Ngu Hao 2, in the Annamite Mountains of Laos.