Denisova 11

Denissowa Cave in the Altai Mountains , where the fossil was found

Denisovan 11, genetic pedigree

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 .

[1] Robin Dennell: Dating of hominin discoveries at Denisova. In: Nature . Volume 565, 2019, pp. 571-572, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-019-00264-0

[2] 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

[3] 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 .