[Makana]

Look to the person on your right and then your left. This explains a lot.

[fruser1]

Someone needs to come up w/a good Denisovan recipe.

Then we can say things like “I like my chicken like my women”.

[bgill]

No different from today.

[jdsteel]

Once you go Denovian you won’t Neanderthal again!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How is it possible for two different species of creature to inbreed? I have been taught the offspring will self-abort. And species very closely similar will have offspring that are sterile.

And why then is not the Middle East full of half man-half sheep and half goats like PAN or the Minotaur?

[PGalt]

Interesting and hilarious. Never heard of them. Thanks for posting.

(ping)

[Grampa Dave]

I just got back my Ancestor DNA results, and most of my DNA comes from Western Europe.

This may explain why I feel better with a Paleo diet combined with a Med Diet. Also, I may have inherited my seasonal allegies and passed on to the generations below me from the dang Denisovans.

Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry--published March 28 in Current Biology--suggests that many bloodlines around the world, particularly of South Asian descent, may actually be a bit more Denisovan, a mysterious population of hominids that lived around the same time as the Neanderthals. The analysis also proposes that modern humans interbred with Denisovans about 100 generations after their trysts with Neanderthals.

The Harvard Medical School/UCLA research team that created the map also used comparative genomics to make predictions about where Denisovan and Neanderthal genes may be impacting modern human biology. While there is still much to uncover, Denisovan genes can potentially be linked to a more subtle sense of smell in Papua New Guineans and high-altitude adaptions in Tibetans. Meanwhile, Neanderthal genes found in people around the world most likely contribute to tougher skin and hair.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160328133514.htm

[Rockingham]

Now we know what Elizabeth Warren really fears in taking a DNA test.

[Lean-Right]

Isn’t this what David Koresh was?
A Branch Denisovan?

[Bellflower]

They are, if this is true, likely demon spawn, angel spawn, or the spawn of humans, who became isolated and through interbreeding and the conditions they were living in, specialized into a subspecies, not unlike wolves and foxes have. They then “stumbled” upon each other and cross bred, apparently still being viable with each other.