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Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

10 June 2019

A strange signal in ancient and modern human DNA suggests the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans must have mated with an unknown species of human

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Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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