December 31, 2016

Denisova Molar (Photo Thilo Parg / Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 3.0)

An article published in the journal “Molecular Biology and Evolution” describes a genetic research on Greenland Inuits. A team of researchers led by Dr. Fernando Racimo of the New York Genome Center used genomic information of about 200 people and comparing them with those of a number of hominids concluded that in particular two key genes for cold adaptation were inherited from hominids called Denisovans or their close relatives.