A recent article in the New York times discuss a paper/letter in Nature titled The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. Basically, the DNA extracted from a ~90,000 year old bone from a Siberian cave seems to be part Neanderthal and part Denisovan. If true, it's really remarkable that they happen to get a sample from a first generation hominid hybrid. But I wonder if this might be a Neanderthal sample contaminated with Denisovan DNA?
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
A Neanderthal - Denisovan 1st generation hybrid?
A recent article in the New York times discuss a paper/letter in Nature titled The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. Basically, the DNA extracted from a ~90,000 year old bone from a Siberian cave seems to be part Neanderthal and part Denisovan. If true, it's really remarkable that they happen to get a sample from a first generation hominid hybrid. But I wonder if this might be a Neanderthal sample contaminated with Denisovan DNA?
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