Silvana Condemi, a world-leading paleoanthropologist, is the research director of CNRS, the largest French public scientific research organization, at Aix-Marseille University. She is the coauthor of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans. François Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is the co-author of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.

"Defined by their DNA rather than by their physical appearance, the Denisovans present us with the ultimate mystery of human evolution. In their entertaining new book Silvana Condemi and Francois Savatier painstakingly assemble everything we currently know about these shadowy extinct relatives and boldly paint a picture of them as they may have been in life."

• ProloguePart 1: The Third MenThe EnigmaIn the Denisova CaveDenisova, a Human Species?Denisova Through Its GenesAn Immense Empire in the EastPart 2: OriginsBefore Denisova: The Strange Homo erectusThe Earth System, Home to Denisova?Denisova, Sons of CrossbreedingThe Ancestor of Denisova and NeanderthalHeading EastThe Bamboo EmpirePart 3: In the Denisova SkinPortrait of DenisovaIn Search of Lost Denisovan FossilsDenisova’s Body and Face Are Back!Living DenisovaBibliographyCreditsList of InfographicsAcknowledgments

Silvana Condemi, a world-leading paleoanthropologist, is the research director of CNRS, the largest French public scientific research organization, at Aix-Marseille University. She is the coauthor of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans. François Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is the co-author of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.

"Defined by their DNA rather than by their physical appearance, the Denisovans present us with the ultimate mystery of human evolution. In their entertaining new book Silvana Condemi and Francois Savatier painstakingly assemble everything we currently know about these shadowy extinct relatives and boldly paint a picture of them as they may have been in life."

• ProloguePart 1: The Third MenThe EnigmaIn the Denisova CaveDenisova, a Human Species?Denisova Through Its GenesAn Immense Empire in the EastPart 2: OriginsBefore Denisova: The Strange Homo erectusThe Earth System, Home to Denisova?Denisova, Sons of CrossbreedingThe Ancestor of Denisova and NeanderthalHeading EastThe Bamboo EmpirePart 3: In the Denisova SkinPortrait of DenisovaIn Search of Lost Denisovan FossilsDenisova’s Body and Face Are Back!Living DenisovaBibliographyCreditsList of InfographicsAcknowledgments

Silvana Condemi, a world-leading paleoanthropologist, is the research director of CNRS, the largest French public scientific research organization, at Aix-Marseille University. She is the coauthor of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans. François Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is the co-author of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.

"Defined by their DNA rather than by their physical appearance, the Denisovans present us with the ultimate mystery of human evolution. In their entertaining new book Silvana Condemi and Francois Savatier painstakingly assemble everything we currently know about these shadowy extinct relatives and boldly paint a picture of them as they may have been in life."

• ProloguePart 1: The Third MenThe EnigmaIn the Denisova CaveDenisova, a Human Species?Denisova Through Its GenesAn Immense Empire in the EastPart 2: OriginsBefore Denisova: The Strange Homo erectusThe Earth System, Home to Denisova?Denisova, Sons of CrossbreedingThe Ancestor of Denisova and NeanderthalHeading EastThe Bamboo EmpirePart 3: In the Denisova SkinPortrait of DenisovaIn Search of Lost Denisovan FossilsDenisova’s Body and Face Are Back!Living DenisovaBibliographyCreditsList of InfographicsAcknowledgments