Fossil points of a disappeared human species in the Himalayas

A fossil jaw found in the Himalayan highlands of Tibet belongs to an extinct human species called Denisovans, deepening the mystery of human evolution in Asia, scientists said Wednesday in a new study on the roots of the disease. humanity.

Discovered by a local Buddhist monk, the fossil shows that these archaic human parents lived on top of the world in a rarefied air at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet – an altitude that would leave many people starving for oxygen. They settled at these icy heights at least 160,000 years ago, more than …