Ancient teenager the first known person with parents of two different species
- Written by Michelle Langley, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith University
We don't have the full skeleton of a Denisovan so we don't really know what they looked like. from www.shutterstock.com
A new ancient DNA study published in Nature today reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species. The studied remains belonged to a girl who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
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