Ancient Science

Hybrid Children

Impact of the Lapedo Child Discovery The Lapedo Child, with its mosaic of early modern human and Neanderthal features, was the result of interbreeding between early modern humans and Neanderthals over an extended period of time. Thi

A child in time - Nature

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Ancient Girl's Parents Were Two Different Human SpeciesBorn 90,000 years ago, the child is the first direct evidence of interbreeding among Neanderthals and their cousins the Denisovans.

Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human speciesA sliver of bone once belonged to “Denny”, the child of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father – the first such first-generation hybrid ever found

We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thoughtDNA analysis suggests that our species may have interbred with Denisovans at least three times, including in Papua New Guinea only 15,000 years ago

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