Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?

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Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?

December 9, 2021;

Science Daily-University of California (Davis) Extinct Denisovans passed on genes that help Tibetans survive high altitudes. The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe. A new paper by archaeologists at the University of California, Davis, highlights that our extinct cousins,…

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