More than 50,000 years ago, a Neanderthal woman and a Denisovan man had sex, and a few months later she gave birth to a girl . Many centuries later, in a Siberian cave next to the Altai Mountains, the bones were found that left this half-breed woman who was about 13 years old at his death .
It has been known for almost a decade that Neanderthals, Denisovans and
modern humans under certain circumstances had offspring, but a son of a mixed couple was never found .
Today, the magazine Nature published the genome of the first of these people . A team from Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the DNA extracted from a bone fragment of the young woman and concluded that the mother was Neanderthal and Denisovan Father . The first connects the adolescent with the lineage of a well-known species, to which the first known artistic expressions are attributed and which have left their bones and tools throughout Europe. Her father makes her the descendant of a much more mysterious group, known only from the genetic analysis of small bone fragments found only in the Russian Denisova Cave.
Today, the magazine Nature published the genome of the first of these people . A team from Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the DNA extracted from a bone fragment of the young woman and concluded that the mother was Neanderthal and Denisovan Father . The first connects the adolescent with the lineage of a well-known species, to which the first known artistic expressions are attributed and which have left their bones and tools throughout Europe. Her father makes her the descendant of a much more mysterious group, known only from the genetic analysis of small bone fragments found only in the Russian Denisova Cave.
