Archaeologists Just Discovered Evidence of Denisovans in Australia?

Discover the latest findings of archaeologists who may have uncovered a Denisovan skull in Australia. Learn about the potential implications for our understanding of human evolution in this fascinating video. Given the fact that recent DNA studies show that Papuan Highlanders interbred with a Denisovan-related group, possibly as recently as 15,000 years ago, we should be looking for skulls with so-called archaic-looking features in Papua and Australia. However, this archaic population is deeply divergent from the northern Denisovans population from Siberia and China. Scientists identified another Denisovan population which lived in southeast Asia, that diverged around 363,000 years ago from the Siberian group. The Denisovan lineage found in Australia and New Guinea split off from the northern Denisovans around 283,000 years ago, suggesting they arrived in Australia-New Guinean around 300,000 years. This would have given them ample time to spread throughout the landmass known as Sahul, which is the c