The teenage girl’s ancient father

When Slon and her team looked into the bone fragment’s nuclear DNA, they realized that there was “something funky” about it. In fact, the results of their study were so shocking to the degree that she was convinced she had made a mistake. She probably asked herself whether she skewed the data without even realizing it, or had the bone sample been corrupted inside the laboratory?

After having consistent findings, Slon eventually knew that there was no mistake. While the teenage girl’s mother had DNA belonging to the Neanderthals, her father, according to the results of their research, was indeed a Denisovan, but that wasn’t everything she found out. While further analyzing the bone fragment, the paleogeneticist and her team also discovered that the teenage girl’s genetic makeup was surprisingly varied as a whole. Talk about the possibility of interbreeding, let’s learn more about it on the next page.