Can't wait for the TV special!

And James Cameron's documentary on the Discovery Channel. And the book deals. And the movie tie-in. That is, until it's found to be nothing special (then you'll hardly hear a peep about it as the scientists slink back to their labs when the press finds something better to foam at the mouth over) but sadly after the damage from the propaganda has already been done:

Fossil DNA Analysis May Have Revealed New Human Species

A 40,000-year-old child's pinky bone found in a Siberian cave probably belonged to a previously unknown human species living near modern humans of the era, a gene study reports today. In the Nature journal study, the pinky bone discovered in the Denisova cave archaeological site in southern Siberia yielded mitochondrial DNA — maternal genes inherited outside of the ones found in cell's chromosomes — unrelated to either humans or their extinct Neanderthal cousins.

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