Scientists Were Studying This Ancient DNA When They Discovered A Girl Whose Parents Were Two Different Species

Finding The Actual Offspring

Slon told the London newspaper the Evening Standard in 2018 that “we knew from earlier studies that Neanderthals and Denisovans must have produced children together on occasion.” “However, I never imagined we’d be so fortunate as to locate a genuine offspring of the two populations,” said geneticist David Reich of Harvard University.

Finding The Actual Offspring

It Seemed Implausible

Reich told National Geographic, “It’s incredible to be able to locate something like this.” “It seemed implausible that we’d be able to capture it in the act – a somebody who’s genuinely the product of a first-generation hybrid”

It Seemed Implausible