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The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Nature - 1 Sept 2018
Slon Viviane, Mafessoni Fabrizio, Vernot Benjamin, de Filippo Cesare, Grote Steffi, Viola Bence, Hajdinjak Mateja, Peyrégne Stéphane, Nagel Sarah, Brown Samantha, Douka Katerina, Higham Tom, Kozlikin Maxim B, Shunkov Michael V, Derevianko Anatoly P, Kelso Janet, Meyer Matthias, Prüfer Kay, Pääbo Svante
Abstract excerpt
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago1,2. Here we present the genome of 'Denisova 11', a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia)3 and show that it comes from an individual who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. The father, whose genome bears traces of Neanderthal ancestry, came from a population related to a later...
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