The word ‘Denisovan’ is sometimes mentioned in media in reference to
fossils of a kind of dinosaurs
an early human species
a cave system found in North-East India
a geological period in the history of Indian subcontinent
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UPSC IAS – 2019
Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans. Their existence was first suggested in 2010 based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analysis of a fossil found in Denisova Cave in Siberia. Genetic studies have shown that Denisovans interbred with modern humans and Neanderthals.