Yes. Early immigrants to the Americas had relatively higher amount of neanderthal or Denisovan DNA. Or else there was a population there that migrated very early on. Or else some group of Melanesians or Polynnesiams sailed over.. .phew that solves it 
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I wonder if there is a way to test which one of these 3 possibilities is more likely.
While we are on the topic of Denisovans, this video a year ago has a good discussion as well.
Polynesian migrants, not northern land bridge
I donāt think we could determine exactly yet.
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Is it the case that thereās still never been a Denisovan skeleton found? A few teeth and jaws , maybe a finger bone, bits of craniums only?
It sure is interesting given we have skeletons of much earlier human ancestors.
It helps that those earlier hominines lived on dry East and South African prairies.
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Interesting find. But seems iffy at best given itās in the ocean and vast amount of travel is possible within it. Not that land travel isnt incredibly possible as well which makes location of bonesa bit hard to take as actual distribution fact alone sometimes.
Itās pretty easy for smaller peices to travel around. Floods, animals, trophies/collection etc. Finding habitation, art, whole bodies, families, tools etc tend to lend more evidence to a species actually existing/travelling through an area. I wonder if such a discovery has been found? Especially in Taiwan.
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While somewhat interesting there was a fair amount of makey uppy content in that possibly AI generated article ā¦this sounds like a load of bullshit
performances, with figures holding objects resembling flutes and percussion instruments. Perhaps most intriguing are the numerous paintings showing interactions between different hominid species, potentially documenting contact between Homo sapiens and other human species like Neanderthals or Denisovans. These scenes provide unprecedented glimpses
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Yes, I stopped reading that article after the first sentence.
Although Iād love to know more, the fictional writings of Tolkien and the legends/old wives tales he based them on remain as close as any speculation we may make about actual interactions between ancient humans to explaining the DNA/archaeological record 
I read down to the paywall, gonna try to get the whole thingā¦
Who were the ancient Denisovans? Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01549-3
Yup, here it is: https://archive.ph/t4peh
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I canāt believe no one has analyzed Homo Erectus DNA before for it to be compared with sequenced Denisovan samples.
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Maybe they havenāt found any with enough preserved proteins? I donāt think they can sequence from fossilsā¦
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Scientists Have Finally Identified A Denisovan Skull ā Itās Been Hiding In Plain Sight Since 1933
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ārampant interbreedingā 
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Wow big news, we can know what some of our rarer ancestors looked like now.
Thatās some serious eye ridges.
Them ancient humans got it on like the crew of Star Trek!
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Not really that ancient and not about earlier hominins. A paper about a possible maritime migration between Taiwan and Japan (Yonaguni Island) in the Late Pleistocene.
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I wonder why the paper placed the starting point down in Taidong instead of Yilan. You could see Yunaguni from Yilan, and making it much easier for people to be confident that they could make the journey.
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