The Riddle of Denisovan Man. The Missing Link in Human History

An amazing discovery in 2010 gifted us a new ancestor. In Altai, in the Denisova cave, a small phalanx of a girl's finger was found. The decoding of DNA revealed a representative of a new, separate human species from Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. The authors of the book captivatingly narrate how this remarkable discovery occurred, how Denisovans lived, what they looked like, and how they differed from sapiens and Neanderthals; they trace the footprints of migration. But the discussion is not only about Denisovans. You will learn: how scientists first discovered traces of ancient people, and what revolution this wrought in minds; how it turned out that sapiens was not alone in evolution; how scientists found out that we all have Neanderthal genes; where modern descendants of ancient people live and who the mysterious Dragon-Man is.