We Found The Child
Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute told the Evening Standard, “It is astonishing that we find this Denisovan/Neanderthal child among the handful of ancient individuals whose genomes have been analyzed.” “It’s possible that Neanderthals and Denisovans didn’t have many opportunities to meet. When they did, though, they must have mated regularly – far more frequently than we previously assumed.”
We Found The Child
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It Is Possible
Researchers are examining various possibilities, including the possibility that the discovery was nothing more than a lucky break. One of them is that the two hominid species regularly interacted — and interbred. And if this theory is correct, it will completely change how we think about the ancient world.
It Is Possible
