7200-year-old DNA suggests Denisovans bred with humans on Sulawesi

By Michael Marshall

Fragments of a quality skull recovered connected the land of Sulawesi successful Indonesia

University of Hasanuddin

For the archetypal time, DNA has been obtained from the bones of a Stone Age idiosyncratic who lived connected the Indonesian land of Sulawesi. The familial accusation sheds airy connected the prehistory of the South-East Asian islands – including what happened erstwhile our species, Homo sapiens, archetypal reached the area.

Sulawesi is 1 of the largest islands successful South-East Asia, the portion betwixt the Asian mainland and Australia. On the island’s South Peninsula, researchers person excavated a cave called …