Q. The word ‘Denisovan’ is sometimes mentioned in media in reference to

• fossil of a kind of dinosaurs
• an early human species
• a cave system found in North-East India
• a geological period in the history of Indian subcontinent

Answer: (b) an early human species

Denisovans

• Denisovans are an extinct species of hominid.
• Fossil evidence of the Denisovans first identified in 2010.
• The jawbone discovered in the Tibetan Plateau and dated to more than 160,000 years ago, is the first Denisovan fossil found outside the Siberian cave.