(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Researchers examined DNA fragments passed down from Neanderthals and Denisovans to modern people living in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea and found: the ancestry of Papuans includes not just one but two distinct Denisovan lineages, which had been separated from each other for hundreds of thousands of years. One of those Denisovan lineages is so different from the other that they might even be considered an entirely new group of archaic hominins.
from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://bit.ly/2P5q3VJ
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