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Reasonably likely that genetic evidence and further fossils will find everything we previously thought about humanity was wrong. What we think of as 'races' may be the result of separate hybridisation events between different species of the Homo genus. Thegibbsgamble fringe theory that aboriginal people came here much earlier than first thought, as Homo Erectus, and evolved separately is entirely possible."The only known fossils are a finger bone, three teeth and the long bone fragment from five different individuals excavated from a single cave in the Altai Mountains."
"They may not even be Neanderthals or Denisovans, said Michael Westaway, also from Griffith University.
"It makes you wonder if the Denisovans' genomes aren't simply Homo erectus [another earlier species of human, also known as Java man]," said Dr Westaway, who was not involved in the research.
"It will be good a day when we find the fossil skulls of these Denisovans to work out what hominin they are."
And further more another scientist questions whether this ancestor is merely a Homo Erectus, in other words the theory put forward is open to all interpretations yet let's ignore the entire article and print a headline.
Now, if you google Denisovan you will get pictures of apemen explaining when they lived, how they looked etc
So basically, from a 2.5cm shard supposedly from either an arm or leg bone, we have deduced it to be a 13 year old daughter and known as Denison11 and is one of our ancestors
hmmm...