The Ancient Girl Whose DNA Revealed Her Parents Were Two Different Human Species
Direct evidence.
That phrase — so understated in the context of what had been found — is the scientific equivalent of the awed whisper.
Direct evidence was what the field had never had before.
Direct evidence was what a 50-50 first-generation genome provided, beyond any inference or statistical implication.
Direct evidence was Denny.
Why The Story Of Denny Is Our Story Too
The discovery of Denny matters to us — to modern humans living in the twenty-first century — not just as a fascinating scientific fact about the ancient past, but as something more personal.
Every person of non-African ancestry living today carries, in their genome, the traces of ancient encounters like the one that produced Denny.
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