A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau, Published online: 01 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x

Fossil evidence indicates that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene epoch and successfully adapted to this high-altitude hypoxic environments long before the regional arrival of modern Homo sapiens.

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