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Mom was a Neanderthal. Dad was something else entirely. Meet the strangest hybrid in human history.

Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post

A 90,000-year-old finger bone has been found belonging to a 13-year-old girl whose mother was a Neanderthal but whose father was a Denisovan.

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