Denisovan
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Denisova Cave, where Denisovan remains were discovered, + -an.
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[edit]Denisovan (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
- 2010 December 23, Hannah Devlin, “Unknown Species of Man Identified from Cave DNA”, in The Times, page 17:
- Denisovan Man is the first human relative to have been identified purely from DNA, extracted from the bone and a tooth found in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.
- 2010 December 23, Ian Sample, "Finger Bone Points to New Human Line", The Guardian, international section, page 18:
- A molar tooth, measuring around 1.5cm on each side and found at the site in 2000, also belongs to a Denisovan individual.
- 2012 February 1, Alanna Mitchell, “DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All”, in The New York Times, page D1:
- It is the only known place on the planet where three types of humans — Denisovan, Neanderthal and modern — lived, probably not all at once.
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[edit]Denisovan (plural Denisovans)
- A member of an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
- 2010 December 23, Carl Zimmer, “Scant Remains Reveal Ancient Neanderthal Cousins”, in The New York Times, page A14:
- And yet, despite their having the entire genome of a Denisovan, Dr. Paabo cannot say much yet about what they were like.
- 2011 August 26, Ann Gibbons, “Who Were the Denisovans?”, in Science, volume 33, page 1084:
- …this was only the third fossil ever found of a Denisovan, the others being the bit of finger bone and another molar, also from Denisova cave.
- 2012 August 31, John Lauerman, "Ancient Genome, Modern Brains", The Gazette (Montreal), page A2:
- The researchers were even able to split and analyze the two strands of the Denisovan's DNA, and thus differentiate the contributions of each parent.
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[edit]a member of an extinct grouping of Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains
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