Neanderthals and Denisovans were closely related. DNA
comparisons suggest that our ancestors diverged from theirs some 500,000 years
ago. No skulls or tools have been found to reveal what the
Denisovans looked or acted like. No one knows what happened when modern humans
who had migrated from Africa first set eyes on them. What’s certain, from
generic evidence, is that such encounters produced offspring.
(National Geographic, July 2013)
(National Geographic, July 2013)
