Becoming Human

The importance of genetic research in helping us understand diversity among our ancestors is playing an ever more important part. Last week a paper in the journal Science Express cast new light on a previously dimly glimpsed people referred to as the Denisovans.

A Nature paper in early August announced the finding of  dramatic fossils and refocused attention on the significance of fossils found decades ago.  The team led by Meave Leakey said bones found at Koobi Foora near the shores of Lake Turkana resembled those found forty years ago near this same location.