The Ancient Girl Whose DNA Revealed Her Parents Were Two Different Human Species
Denny’s long bone fragment, which may have been an arm or leg bone, provides little additional anatomical information.
The fragment is too small and too generalized in form to characterize the skeletal morphology of her hybrid status.
She remains, physically, almost as opaque as the Denisovans themselves.
What Genetics Can Now Reconstruct
The limitations of the Denisovan fossil record make the genetic evidence all the more important — and the field of genetic reconstruction of ancient morphology all the more relevant.
In the years since the Denisovan genome was first published, researchers have developed methods for inferring phenotypic characteristics — physical traits — from ancient genomes.
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