Denisovans Settled The Tibetan Plateau First
Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau 120,000 years before humans and passed on a gene to survive high altitude life
A new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution1 synthesizes current evidence and concludes definitively that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau 160,000 years ago. Furthermore, they contributed to many physiologic adaptations we have to high altitudes. The authors were able to integrate archaeological and genetic lines of evidence to make their claim.
