Possible New Hominid Species Identified

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"The report comes from Nature, and it involves a site in the Altai mountains of Siberia called Denisova Cave (pronounced de NEE soh va). The cave has been excavated since the 1970s and it has evidence of occasional human use beginning about 125,000 years ago. Of particular interest to this study is what Siberian archaeologists call the Altai Mousterian, or Initial Upper Paleolithic levels, dated somewhere between 30,000 and 45,000 years ago (uncalibrated years before the present)".
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This is so thrilling, I wonder what kind of information can be extracted from the bones.

PS There is a young biologist in Helsinki who is basing his doctoral theses on the bones found in the Isokyro bog. Naturally, since this is his theses he did not want to disclose much except for the fact that DNA/mtDNA is still in process at the lab.