In photos: A bone from a Denisovan-Neanderthal hybrid

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Working with DNA

Denisova Cave discoveries

(Image credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Analyzing the genome

Denisova Cave discoveries

(Image credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Automated processes generate DNA libraries and isolate DNA.

Ancient humans

Denisova Cave discoveries

(Image credit: Karsten Möbius)

Svante Pääbo, lead author of the new study and director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, stands with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton.

Mingling populations

Denisova Cave discoveries

(Image credit: Petra Korlević)

Drawing of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father with their child, a girl, at Denisova Cave in Russia.

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Tia is the managing editor and was previously a senior writer for Live Science. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Wired.com and other outlets. She holds a master's degree in bioengineering from the University of Washington, a graduate certificate in science writing from UC Santa Cruz and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Tia was part of a team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that published the Empty Cradles series on preterm births, which won multiple awards, including the 2012 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.