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Catalog no. | DC1227 |
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Common name | Denny, Denisovan 11 |
Species | 1st generation Neanderthal/Denisovan |
Age | 90,000 years |
Place discovered | Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, Russia |
Date discovered | 2012 |
Discovered by | Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo |
Denny is the nickname of a fossil from a 13-year-old girl that lived some 90,000 years ago, shown to be an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan.[1][2] Denny was found in 2012 and she represents the first time an ancient individual was discovered whose parents belonged to two discrete species of humans.[1][2] Its DNA allows for extensive comparative genetic studies between human species, and may inform the frequency of interspecies hominin breeding and its influence on the evolution of the modern human.
The initial genetic analysis was led by palaeo-geneticists Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.[1]