… mammalian DNA that often includes traces of hominin DNA, … numerous sediment samples,
we detected Neandertal DNA … In Denisova Cave, we retrieved Denisovan DNA in a Middle …

… Here we report the analysis of DNA from 728 sediment samples that were collected in a
grid-… to the Pleistocene epoch. We retrieved ancient faunal and hominin mitochondrial (mt)DNA …

… DNA (mtDNA) can be recovered from Pleistocene sediments (2), indicating that it may be
possible to overcome the dependency on the scarce fossil record in the quest for hominin DNA. …

… to be from a Denisovan, an Asian hominin related to Neanderthals, on the basis of … DNA
extracted from the sediments in BKC. We recover Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from sediments …

… mammalian DNA that often includes traces of hominin DNA, … of numerous sediment samples
we detect Neandertal DNA in … In Denisova Cave we retrieved Denisovan DNA in a Middle …

… of sediment interferes with DNA preservation and recovery, we produced “miniblocks” from
seven Pleistocene sediment samples with known preservation of ancient mammalian DNA (4…

… suggests it is of comparable age to Denisova 8. Thus, there may well have been alternations
or lacunae in the Denisovan and Neanderthal presence in the cave over many millennia, …

… the Denisovans with the Middle Paleolithic, which existed in the first half of the Upper Pleistocene,
… Ancient DNA studies of hominin fossils and Pleistocene sediments were conducted by …

Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other
more than 390,000 years ago 1 , 2 . Here we present the genome of ‘Denisova 11’, a bone …

… found similar patterns of Denisovan DNA deserts on the X … Neanderthal DNA on chromosome
X when compared to the autosomes, and Oceanians showed 21% less Denisovan DNA on …