via news18.com Image Credit: Ophelia Persson A recent study has shown that an ethnic group situated in the southeast Asian country of the Philippines exhibits Denisovan ancestry. The Denisovan is a group of archaic humans first identified from a single bone in a Siberian cave. Earlier, studies have shown that the Denisovans co-existed with modern humans and other archaic human species, such as Neanderthals, for hundreds of thousands of years, until they went extinct an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 years ago. Published in Current Biology journal, the research included over 40 authors and was published on August 12. In their study, the international team of scientists has mentioned that they have found evidence that shows how modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans. The research details an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and Denisovans distinctively in the island nation of the Philippines. The research was aimed at finding how the modern-day Philippines