Denisovan DNA in the Genome of Early East Asians - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

New studies are shaking up traditional notions of the earliest development and spread of peoples and behaviors. German and Mongolian collaborative genomic research shows that a 34,000-year-old female modern human found in eastern Mongolia possessed both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA. "DNA-fishing" in the dirt for Denisovan genetic material supports the news that In a Tibetan Cave, Australian Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Mysterious Ancestor. Liam Mannix reports. Both articles stress the coming together of species in one way; congress of a different sort is contemplated in the question Did Neanderthals Go to War with Our Ancestors? Highly likely, says Nicholas R. Longrich, much of whose reasoning rests upon their being so much alike--and like us. Longrich says biology, paleontology, and archaeology paint a darker, "more modern" picture of Neanderthal behaviors than the tempting and traditional idyllic one. So our pugnacious tendencies may come from more than one side of the human family. (WM)

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