Offspring of Neanderthal and Denisovan identified for first time

“If you had asked me beforehand, I would have said we will never find this, it is like finding a needle in a haystack,” said Svante Pääbo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. “And then we stumbled across it. I was very surprised.” The discovery has led scientists to suspect that different groups of archaic humans, including the ancestors of peopl