The Ancient Girl Whose DNA Revealed Her Parents Were Two Different Human Species
The nature of the evidence has changed from indirect to direct, from statistical to observable, from inference to proof.
This shift in the nature of the evidence is what makes Denny so significant beyond the specific findings about her parentage.
She is not just proof that Neanderthals and Denisovans had children together.
She is proof that the ancient human world can be read at the level of individual lives — that the specific events of specific encounters between specific ancient people are, under the right conditions, recoverable from the physical evidence they left behind.
That is an extraordinary thing to know.
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