And author Adam Brumm also highlighted an intriguing link with the Denisovan hominid, “ cousin ” of mankind about little is known save for a few fossil fragments.... The report, published in the scientific journal Nature this week, offers clues about the process by which Australia first came to be populated by human beings, said Mr Brumm of Griffith University in Brisbane. However, he said ultimately his research poses many more questions about the complexities of human evolution. The research,