December 22, 2010

The 30,000-year-old fossil was found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia in 2008

A finger bone from Siberia now reveals a previously unknown group of ancient humans once existed there, one neither like us nor Neanderthals.

Bizarrely, the DNA from these extinct Siberians seems unusually similar to that of Pacific Islanders from tropical Melanesia.

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  1. Coop on December 22nd, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    Exciting!

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