
The Ancient Girl Whose Parents Were Two Different Species
In 2018, researchers unveiled the incredible case of Denisova 11, a 13-year-old girl who lived over 50,000 years ago and is the only known individual in history to have had parents from two different hominin species.1 Her mother was a Neanderthal, and her father a Denisovan, two distinct but closely related hominin groups. This revelation has…