# A Neanderthal woman from Chagyrskaya Cave: Neanderthals may have lived in

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**Author:** ![Patrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Patrick](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Patrick)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-neanderthal-woman-from-chagyrskaya-cave-neanderthals-may-have-lived-in/10952/1 "2020-06-18T01:16:59Z")

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> **[A Neanderthal woman from Chagyrskaya Cave: Neanderthals may have lived in...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200617121513.htm)**
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> Until now, the genomes of only two Neanderthals have been sequenced in high quality: one from Vindjia Cave in modern-day Croatia and one from Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains. A research team has now sequenced the genome of a third...

> **[A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave](https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/15/2004944117)**
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> We present the third high-quality genome to be determined from a Neandertal. Patterns of variation in the genome suggest that her ancestors lived in relatively isolated populations of less than 60 individuals. When we analyze this genome together...

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**Author:** ![John\_Harshman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/john_harshman/32/1121_2.png) [@John\_Harshman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/John_Harshman)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-neanderthal-woman-from-chagyrskaya-cave-neanderthals-may-have-lived-in/10952/2 "2020-06-18T05:05:59Z")

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Something I hadn’t known before: there’s a hybrid individual with a neandertal mother and a denisovan father.

V. Slon et al. The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature 561:113–116 (2018).

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**Author:** ![Patrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Patrick](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Patrick)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-neanderthal-woman-from-chagyrskaya-cave-neanderthals-may-have-lived-in/10952/3 "2020-06-18T13:08:12Z")

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Yes, that was a very surprising find in 2018. It is getting more and more certain that there were many species of humans in the world prior to 40,000 years ago. Only one species of human remain now with most of us still having DNA remnants of these other species in our genomes.