“If Denisovans and Neanderthals had not been present, the modern human species would likely not have survived the COVID pandemic period. Inherited traits from Denisovans and Neanderthals contributed to the formation of a more complex and adaptive immune defense in Homo sapiens,” he stated. At the same press conference, held at the TASS media center, Shunkov also emphasized the significant contribution of Denisovan genes to the modern human genome. The most recent Neanderthal populations became extinct approximately forty thousand years ago, as evidenced by data from the Gibraltar area and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. These hominids took their name from the discovery of their fragments in the Neander Valley, located in Germany.
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