"Denisovan is neither a game nor a book, but resides somewhere between the two as an illustrated, digital narrative and is available on iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices. The work features a narrative poem illustrated with animated graphics; sounds and animations are triggered by user touches. The poem and images also exist as a softcover book.
The story is a fictional imagining of a girl who died 40,000 years ago. It was inspired by the genomic mapping of a contemporary of early humans and Neanderthal: the denisovan hominin. Bone fragments from a single individual were found in a Siberian cave, and paleogeneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology mapped the genome, determining that the fragments belonged to a previously unknown hominid.
The story of human evolution is many things. One part of this story is the nurturing of children by mothers and fathers, generation after generation. We know that the denisovan girl had brown hair and eyes, but we can only speculate on her family structure, and how parent-child relationships may have evolved in the last 40,000 years."