The Ancient Girl Whose DNA Revealed Her Parents Were Two Different Human Species
The story of ancient humanity has always been more connected than we imagined.
More intimate.
More surprising.
The bones are still coming out of the ground, and the DNA is still speaking to us across the millennia, and every so often — in a fragment no bigger than a fingertip, in a gene sequence extracted by machines that operate at the boundary of what science can do — the past reveals something that changes everything.
Denny changed everything.