Scientists Tested Ancient DNA. Their Families Were Two Different Species

Children of Two Species: The Ancient Hybrids Hidden in Our DNA Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans were never truly separate. Ancient DNA has revealed hybrid humans and recent Neanderthal ancestry again and again: the Oase 1 jaw from Romania's Cave with Bones, the early modern humans of Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria, the Ranis and Zlatý kůň genomes from Germany and Czechia, the Lapedo child of Portugal, and Denny of Denisova Cave in Siberia, the first-generation daughter of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Plus modern human DNA inside Neanderthals, and the Neanderthal and Denisovan genes still working in people today, from high-altitude adaptation in Tibet to Dupuytren's contracture. WATCH NEXT They Were Better Than Us. So Why Did They Vanish?:    • They Were Better Than Us. So Why Did They ...   #neanderthals #denisovans #ancientdna #humanevolution #ancienthumans #prehistory #neanderthaldna