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“Something happened that only we survived,” Pääbo speculated in 2010. He proposed a few possible narratives, all of them grim: Maybe modern humans out-competed our cousins for precious resources. Or maybe we just killed them.

But “Denisova 11” — the owner of the genome sequence reported Wednesday — highlights a more romantic, more complex and increasingly compelling story.

“This paper and other papers are showing the model of having isolated populations is not quite accurate,” said Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, a population geneticist at Brown University who was not involved in the new research. Huerta-Sanchez is among the scientists who do not consider Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans separate species.

“These other groups that coexisted with us . . . are part of our story,”

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