Leipzig, Germany – According to a IFL Science The Jamon, a group of hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now Japan between 16,000 and 3,000 years ago, had relatively low levels of Densovan compared to East Asians, the report said. The Denisovans were an ancient group of humans, first identified by bones found in Denisova Cave in Siberia, that lived in Asia between 200,000 and 40,000 years ago. Today, people living in Oceania and the islands of Southeast Asia typically inherit about four percent of their DNA from Denisovans. To learn more about how Denisovan genes spread among these populations, Jiaqi Yang of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and colleagues examined the genomes of 115 early modern humans, and compared them to 279 present-day humans. A few Denisovan genes found in the Jamon population may have later made contact with modern humans, who carried Denisovan DNA, Yang said. Or, the researchers suggest, Jamon’s ancestors may have had only initial and limited contact with the Denisovans. Read the original scholarly article about this research Current biology. For more, go to “Genetic History of Japan”.
Posted after a few Densoven genes found in Jomon Hunter Collectors of Japan.
