We also now know that interactions potentially happened closer to Europe. Just after the ‘Ust-Ishim results, DNA from another early H. sapiens fossil was published. This man died hundreds of kilometres westwards, at the Peştera cu Oase, Romania, between 42 and 37 ka. His genetic ancestry was nearly as mind-blowing as Denny’s, because about 11 per cent of it was Neanderthal.
