Bernard's blog does a good job of reviewing the recent publication of a 200,000 year old Denisovan genome.
This Denisovan's life predates the emergence of modern humans from Africa, but overlaps with the existence of the earliest modern humans within Africa.
In a nutshell, the preprint is: Stéphane Peyrégne, et al., "A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan" bioRxiv (October 20, 2025). According to Bernard (via Google translate from French):
They sequenced the genome of molar Denisova 25. Initial results showed that the individual was male. Furthermore, the mitochondrial and Y chromosome haplogroups both belong to the Denisovan population.
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