UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2019

The word 'Denisovan' is sometimes mentioned in media in reference to

  1. fossils of a kind of dinosaurs
  2. an early human species
  3. a cave system found in North-East India
  4. a geological period in the history of Indian subcontinent

Answer

Correct Answer

an early human species

Explanation

Denisovans are an extinct archaic human species/group known from fossils found in Denisova Cave (Siberia) and, more recently, elsewhere in Asia.

Topics: biology, denisovans, human evolution, science and technology