Thursday 23 August 2018

DNA shows cave girl was half Neanderthal

DNA shows cave girl was half Neanderthal

Once upon a time, two early humans of different ancestry met at a cave in Russia. Some 50,000 years later, scientists have confirmed that they had a daughter together. DNA extracted from bone fragments found in the cave show the girl was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

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