According to new findings that were presented at a meeting of the Royal Society in London last week, ancient Humans and Neanderthals weren’t the only two humanoid species walking around and breeding with each other at the same time. Updated genome sequencing suggests that there was a third species — and we don’t know anything about it.
At the meeting, which was about ancient DNA, scientists presented two ancient genomes that had recently been sequenced at a quality that matches modern genome sequencing. One on these genomes came from a Neanderthal, and another from a member of a pre-historic group known as Denisovans, so-called because their remains were discovered in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Southern Siberia, Russia.
via Geekosystem
