How Do You Tell a Neanderthal From a Denisovan?

Thursday 16th December 2021

How Do You Tell a Neanderthal From a Denisovan?

Neanderthal and Denisovan

Neanderthal and Denisovan

For some time, we’ve know how Neanderthals differ from modern humans. Their faces stuck out more and they were a little shorter and broader. They had bigger brains than Homo sapiens, and longer arms. But there aren’t enough Denisovan bones to draw many conclusions about what they looked like. 

“There are so few bones that have been sequenced and are known to be Densiovan that we just don’t know about the Denisovan skeleton,” Rogers says.

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Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman has been the zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1997, and has authored a number of books on the subject of Cryptozoology. He has carried out many major expeditions in search of mystery animals. He also writes fiction.