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This Filipino Ethnic Group Posseses the Highest DNA Level of an Extinct Human Subspecies

The Ayta Magbukun, who mostly occupy the Bataan Peninsula, carry more Denisovan DNA than the Papuan Highlanders.

The Denisovans only become known to science in 2010, when their finger bones and teeth were found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia. They happen to be our extinct relatives, and that's about all we know.Most of their people's ...

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