Denisova 11
Denisova 11 (nickname: Denny ) is the scientific name for a fossil that was discovered in the Denisova Cave in 2012 . It is a small fragment of a long bone that was attributed to a girl around 13 years old. In 2019, a time span of 118,100 to 79,300 years was calculated for the age of the fossil. The child turned out to be a human hybrid who was half Neanderthal and half Denisova human . This makes her the first known descendant of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisova father.
The genetic analysis was carried out by paleogenetics Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
Web links
- Half Neanderthal, half Denisova human. On: Spektrum.de from August 22, 2018
- Neanderthals and Denisovans Mated, New Hybrid Bone Reveals. On: livescience.com on August 22, 2018 (with an image of the bone fragment)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robin Dennell: Dating of hominin discoveries at Denisova. In: Nature . Volume 565, 2019, pp. 571-572, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-019-00264-0
- ↑ Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Benjamin Vernot et al .: The genome of the offspring of a Neandertal mother and a Denisovan father. In: Nature. Volume 561, 2018, pp. 113–116, doi: 10.1038 / s41586-018-0455-x
- ^ Matthew Warren: Mum's a Neanderthal, Dad's a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid. In: Nature. 560, 2018, p. 417, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-018-06004-0 .