Child had Neandertal mom, Denisovan dad

摘要

Talk about blended families. A 13-year-old girl who died about 50,000 years ago was the child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan. Researchers already knew that the two extinct human cousins interbred (SN Online: 3/14/16). But the girl is the only first-generation hybrid ever found. Dubbed Denisova 11, the child is known only from a bone fragment (shown above from multiple views) discovered in Siberia's Denisova Cave in 2012.