An article published in the journal “Nature” describes the results of the analysis of DNA extracted from a piece of bone discovered in 2012 and cataloged as Denisova 11. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, Germany, recovered DNA from that bone and its sequencing revealed that the mother was a Neanderthal while the father was a Denisovan and therefore belonged to another species of hominin. This is yet another proof of the fact that populations of different hominins interbred leading to the birth of hybrids, the reason why the DNA of most Homo sapiens contains Neanderthal or Denisovan genes.