Crossed lines: Branch Denisovans & miscegination

By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 2:09pm |

URL:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/08/22/mom-was-neanderthal-dad-was-something-else-entirely-meet-strangest-hybrid-human-history/

1435 reads

Comments

oy, yeah, the ultimate in cross cultural & tribal assimilation!

“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,”

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 2:41pm

Great article, read it this morning and passed it along.

by barefooted on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 3:02pm

Crossed lines: Branch Denisovans & miscegination

Comments

Sections

Bloggers