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They also interbred with us, as Elizabeth Kolbert reported in a 2011 article in The New Yorker about the efforts of Svante Pääbo to sequence the Neanderthal genome.
Neandertals also interbred with Denisovans.
The team found "Denisovan DNA" in some island Southeast Asians and concluded that their ancestors also interbred with the ancestors of Denisovans, probably in Asia.
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It is unclear whether Denisovans and Neanderthals also interbred.
But, during the thousands of years the two species coexisted, they also interbred.
The Denisovans also seem to have interbred with modern humans: fragments of Denisovan DNA are found in the genomes of living Melanesians.
There are also hints that Denisovans interbred with modern humans in Asia more than once, based on different patterns in the distribution of Denisovan DNA in some Chinese and Melanesians.
I was attracted to the following headline from the Christian Science Monitor on June 2, 2011, (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0602/Woolly-mammoth-may-have-interbred-with-elephants), an article written by Charles Q . Choi "Woolly mammoth may have interbred with elephants".
The genome also shows that at some point the Neandertals interbred with other human groups, including their cousins the Denisovans, and our own modern human ancestors.
DNA analysis reveals that modern humans interbred with them too.
Amazingly — or perhaps, by now, predictably — modern humans must have interbred with Denisovans, too, because contemporary New Guineans carry up to six per cent Denisovan DNA.
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