This Is Our First Look at This Prehistoric Human Relative, Made Using DNA

This Is Our First Look at This Prehistoric Human Relative, Made Using DNA

5 years ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne83ex/this-is-our-first-look-at-this-prehistoric-human-relative-made-using-dna

You, me, and every person on Earth are the last surviving members of a genus called Homo. But we weren’t always the only humans on the planet.

Neanderthals and Denisovans, two “archaic humans” that are now extinct, were so closely related to our species that these three groups interbred within the last 40,000 years. But while you might have a mental picture of a Neanderthal, it’s trickier to imagine a Denisovan.