 Her DNA allows for extensive comparative genetic studies between human species, and may inform the frequency of interspecies hominin breeding and its influence on the evolution of modern humans.The initial genetic analysis was led by palaeo-geneticists Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.Dating analyses in 2016 determined that this individual died about 90,000 years ago, and the bone fragment's characteristics indicate an age of at least 13 years.