DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative

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3. Nat. Geo in 2013 reported DNA from cave in Spain was closer to Denisovan than to Neanderthal

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131204-human-fossil-dna-spain-denisovan-cave/

The original "Denisovan" DNA is from the finger bone and tooth in Siberian cave but the only other discovery of related DNA came from the thighbone found in a Spanish cave, so I don't see how "Denisovan" DNA could be ruled out from Europeans, especially with so few samples.


I take the personal interpretations with a grain of salt- for instance FamilyTree gives me 0% Great Britain or Irish while Ancestry shows 31% Great Britain and 3% Irish which is much more accurate, but I actually have over 12% Irish with even recent immigrant ancestry and proven DNA matches with Irish cousins.


If you have generations of ancestors in America and have not been able to trace all of your lineages back many generations, you can't rule out Native American ancestry. My Ancestry results show 0% Native and Gedmatch models show a small percentage and my family knew very little about our ancestry. But I have found court and church records verifying Native American ancestry several generations back.