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A comment on Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau. Parent comment

Re:Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau by moultano on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:12PM (#24945759)
The fact that humans interbred with them likely means we would just think of them as another kind of slightly different looking people.
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Re:Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau by in3d on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:08PM (#24947997)
It's possible that their speech abilities were different from modern humans. If that's the case, it would be more than just looking differently.

"We show that genes associated with face and vocal tract anatomy went through particularly extensive methylation changes." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15020-6

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