Asian Ancestors Had Sex with Mysterious Human Cousins | Early Human Interbreeding | Genetics of Archaic Human Populations | Neanderthals & Denisovans | LiveScience
Asian Ancestors Had Sex with Mysterious Human Cousins | Early Human Interbreeding | Genetics of Archaic Human Populations | Neanderthals & Denisovans | LiveScience : Neanderthals weren't the only ancient cousins that humans frequently mated with, according to a new study that finds that East Asian populations share genes with a mysterious archaic hominin species that lived in Siberia 40,000 years ago. "This group, the Denisovans, is known only by a few bone fragments: A finger bone, a tooth and possibly a toe bone, which is still undergoing analysis. " Related articles Asian Ancestors Had Sex with Mysterious Human Cousins (livescience.com) Archaic human ancestry in East Asia (Skoglund and Jakobsson 2011) (dienekes.blogspot.com) Human ancestors mated with more than Neanderthals (cbsnews.com) Genes of extinct ancestor survive in modern humans (arstechnica.com) Shared genes with Neanderthal relatives not unusual (eurekalert.org) Genes of Extinct An...