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Island In South East Asia May Hold The Key To Humanity’s Interbreeding – IFLScience

People whose ancestry comes from Southeast Asia’s eastern islands carry extensive evidence of interbreeding with Denisovans. There are, however, no such tr

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People whose ancestry comes from Southeast Asia’s eastern islands carry extensive evidence of interbreeding with Denisovans. There are, however, no such traces of three other members of the human family known to have lived in this area: Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, and the recently discovered Homo luzonensis. Nevertheless, the presence of these other human species probably left an important legacy in certain large animals’ survival. 
The discovery that most modern humans inherited some genes…

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