A distant cousin raises questions about human origins. The ice-age world is starting to look cosmopolitan. While Neanderthals held sway in Europe and modern humans were beginning to populate the globe, another ancient human relative lived in Asia, according to a genome sequence recovered from a finger bone in a cave in southern Siberia. A comparative analysis of the genome with those of modern humans suggests that a trace of this poorly understood strand of hominin lineage survives today, but only in the genes of some Papuans and Pacific islanders.
More here: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101222/full/4681012a.html
And Discovery News: http://news.discovery.com/human/human-ancestor-bred-neanderthals-siberia-101222.html
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