The Denisova cave is situated in the Altai Mountains of Siberia in Russia.
In this cave archaeologists have discovered the fossilised remains of 3 species of archaic humans, the Neanderthals, the Denisovans and Homo sapiens.
If you have seen my “Who were the Denisovans video” you remember me mentioning a Denisovan Neanderthal Hybrid known as Denny.
Her fossilized bone fragment was found in 2012 in the Denisova cave, at first her bone was just kept alongside 2000 other nondescript bone fragments from the cave, all ready for later identification.
For about 4 years the fragment was stored among other fragments until 2016 when Samantha Brown who was a student at the University of Oxford at the time identified the bone fragment to belong to a hominin, a hominin that lived approximately 90,000 years ago.
After they discovered that the bone fragment belonged to a hominin they were able to determine that it belonged to a young female of approximately 13 years of age, they decided to test the fragment for DNA, which they did in 2018. This was done at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

The mitochondrial DNA from the bone fragment showed that this 13 year old girl was the daughter of a full Neanderthal mother.

So they did the Nuclear DNA analysis on the bone fragment as well, this revealed that the father of the girl was a Denisovan, of course in the nuclear DNA they found traces of Neanderthal as well, because as I just explained, Nuclear DNA analysis is inherited from both parents.


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