take a bone from the dry sea: whose hand held it last?

[selidor]

So the Denisovans get more and more interesting.

A shortish Ars Technica piece leads off: a new, improved sequencing technique has allowed the Denisovan genome to be sequenced at up to 20x that of the Neandertal genome, making them our new best-known cousin.
And then John Hawks, whom I particularly trust as speaker-for-geneticists in this area, gives

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[sovay]

For now, a single tooth is having to speak for all that they were.

That's like something from the Graiai.

[selidor]

The sea-born devastation of rooted homes, terrible and warring, are speaking to us out of the tangled kin of ancestry?
AAAAAA.
Scary poem. No no no. You get that card out of the tarot deck.

[rose_lemberg]

Tooth poem collaboration!

[selidor]

Oho.
/looks at poem draft, pokes
/contemplates

[redbird]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[selidor]

Glad it was of interest.

[rose_lemberg]

This is really interesting. Thank you for the link.

[selidor]

Excellent! You're most welcome.