Mysterious ancient human crossed Wallace's Line

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 13:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists have proposed that the most recently discovered ancient human relatives—the Denisovans—somehow managed to cross one of the world's most prominent marine barriers in Indonesia, and later interbred with modern humans moving through the area on the way to Australia and New Guinea.

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