Hybrid Hominin: This Girl’s Mother and Father Came From Two Different Species

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Hybrid Hominin: This Girl’s Mother and Father Came From Two Different Species
By Nathaniel Scharping | August 22, 2018 12:00 pm
 

Researchers uncovered the first direct evidence of hominin interbreeding in the bone fragments of a 13-year-old girl from Russia’s Altai Mountains. (Credit: Max Planck Institute)

Humans think of themselves as exceptional among the creatures inhabiting Earth. But it wasn’t always so.

Multiple groups of humans once co-existed with Homo sapiens, including Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans. And we did more than simply live alongside them — traces in our DNA reveal that our ancestors also interbred with other human species.

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