re: #208 freetoken

The physical anthro folk are having their annual meeting, and one entire session is devoted to Denisovans, and one of the presentations:

Multiple deeply divergent Denisovan ancestries in Papuans

The big news was not revealed in the program abstract, but was given in the presentation yesterday:

Our mysterious cousins—the Denisovans—may have mated with modern humans as recently as 15,000 years ago

While it seems everyone agrees with the idea of multiple populations of Denisovans, there is apparently some skepticism about the very recent extent of their interbreeding with modern humans.

We tend to forget that genus homo had many representatives up until relatively recent times