Denisovans are known only from remains found in three places.

丹尼索瓦人只能从三个地方发现的遗骸中得知。

That would make it the most recent Denisovan remains yet discovered.

这将使其成为迄今为止发现的最新丹尼索瓦人遗骸。

It's the first physical trace of a Denisovan found outside Siberia.

这是在西伯利亚以外发现的第一个丹尼索瓦人的物理痕迹。

Massilani says this method could enable more Denisovan detective work, too.

马西拉尼说，这种方法也使进行更多的丹尼索瓦人侦查工作成为可能。

And another research group used genetic data to reconstruct the face of a Denisovan girl.

另一个研究小组利用基因数据重建了一个丹尼索瓦女孩的脸。

Denisovans live on today in the genomes of some modern-day humans, from the South Pacific.

丹尼索瓦人至今仍存在于一些来自南太平洋的现代人类的基因组中。

These ancient human relatives, and others, called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors.

这些远古的人类亲戚，以及其他被称为丹尼索瓦人的人，曾经与我们早期的智人祖先生活在一起。

He added it was the first time a Denisovan rib has ever been discovered.

他补充说，这是第一次发现丹尼索瓦人的肋骨。

Another bone found in Baishiya Karst Cave is a lower jaw bone of a young Denisovan.

在白石崖洞穴发现的另一块骨头是年轻丹尼索瓦人的颌骨。

Both Neanderthal and Denisovan remains are rarely discovered anywhere in the world.

尼安德特人和丹尼索瓦人的遗骸在世界任何地方都很少被发现。

Modern humans did this too, which is why some present-day people have some Denisovan DNA.

现代人也这样做， 这就是为什么有些现代人有一些丹尼索瓦人的 DNA。

This identified Denisovan DNA as old as 100,000 years, and as young as 60,000.

这确定了丹尼索瓦人的 DNA 有 100,000 年的历史，也有 60,000 年的年轻。

In 2019, a new method of analyzing ancient proteins determined the jaw probably belonged to a Denisovan.

2019 年，一种分析古代蛋白质的新方法确定下颚可能属于丹尼索瓦人。

This emboldened researchers to hunt for definitive evidence of past Denisovan life trapped in the cave sediment.

这鼓励了研究人员寻找过去丹尼索瓦人被困在洞穴沉积物中的确切证据。

The seminal research at Baishiya Karst Cave bolsters evidence of widespread Denisovan habitation in mainland Asia.

白石崖溶洞的开创性研究支持了丹尼索瓦人在亚洲大陆广泛居住的证据。

It also speeds up the race to discover Denisovan nuclear DNA and fossils at the cave.

它还加快了在洞穴中发现丹尼索瓦人核 DNA 和化石的竞赛。

We also know that modern humans mated with Denisovans at some point, but only the Melanesians show significant amounts of Denisovan ancestry today.

我们也知道，现代人类曾与丹尼索瓦人交配过，但今天只有美拉尼西亚人显示出相当大比例的丹尼索瓦人血统特征。

Denisovans were related more closely to Neanderthals than to Homo sapiens, and subsequent analysis has shown that the two sometimes interbred.

丹尼索瓦人与尼安德特人的关系比与智人的关系更密切，随后的分析表明两者有时会杂交。

Denisovan DNA is rarely found in most parts of the world but makes up four to six percent of the DNA of people in Melanesia.

丹尼索瓦人的DNA在世界上大多数地区很少发现，但占美拉尼西亚人DNA的4%到6%。

Their borders overlapped with the Neanderthals here because Neanderthal bones have also been discovered in the same cave that the Denisovan bones were found in.

他们的边界与这里的尼安德特人重叠，是因为在发现丹尼索瓦人的骨头的洞穴中，也发现了尼安德特人的骨头。