Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?
A new paper by archaeologists at the University of California, Davis, highlights that our extinct cousins, the Denisovans, reached the “roof of the world” about 160,000 years ago — 120,000 years earlier than previous estimates for our species — and even contributed to our adaptation to high altitude.
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