The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals

For everyone interested in prehistory-an unprecedented, meticulously reported account of our prehistoric ancestors, the recently discovered "Third Man" cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals

In December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in the remote, isolated Denisova Cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. Rather, the fast-advancing science of paleogenetics revealed that the DNA came from a previously unknown speci...