From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Johnny Tindalos   wrote:   
   >Well more-or-less the same thing anyway: skeleton of prehistoric 13-year   
   >old girl   
   >found, identified as having a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.   
   >Half-dwarf,   
   >half-troll? (She lived 90,000 years ago, which seems a bit early for   
   >Elrond and his   
   >kin.)   
   >   
   >https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06004-0   
   >   
   >There do seem to be more archaic human lineages every time one looks.   
   >The myriad   
   >jostling hemi-humans of Fantasyland are starting to look a bit like a   
   >documentary.   
   >   
   Or, as was remarked in an episode of Doctor Who a while ago,   
   "Humans.  So many species, so little time."   
      
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
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