- Denisovans reached what’s now called “the roof of the world” at least 160,000 years ago. Found in a Tibetan Plateau cave, a partial lower jawbone represents a Denisovan who is the oldest known hominid to reach the region’s cloud-scraping heights, researchers report online May 1 in Nature. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/jawbone-shows-denisovans-lived-tibetan-plateau-long-humans 4 comments science
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