Summary:
- The Jomon people, who lived in Japan thousands of years ago, had little to no DNA from the mysterious Denisovan group of ancient humans.
- Denisovans were a group of archaic humans who lived in Asia alongside Neanderthals and modern humans, but their exact relationship to other human populations is not well understood.
- This study suggests the Jomon people, who were hunter-gatherers in Japan, had a distinct genetic heritage that was largely separate from the Denisovans, providing new insights into the complex history of human evolution in Asia.