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Four archaic sources measured inside living people. Denisova 11 read directly from one bone: a first-generation hybrid.
In plain words
Living people carry DNA from four archaic sources, and one bone from Denisova Cave belonged to a first-generation child of two different kinds of human. The genome and the text land on the same uncomfortable point: we are a merged line, not a pure one.
The mechanism
CONVERGENCE — two records with no contact land on the same unwelcome admission: we are a merged line, not a pure one
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Denisova Cave, Altai Mountains, Siberia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denisova_cave_01.jpg
- SourcesMEASUREMENT — whole-genome sequencing since 2010
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