Scientists Found Ancient Human DNA in Australia That Changed Everything We Know About Our Species

Scientists sequencing Aboriginal Australian DNA have made discoveries that changed the story of our entire species. The oldest surviving human lineage outside Africa. DNA from the Denisovans, a species known only from a single finger bone. DNA from a second unknown human species that has never been found in fossil form. Fifty thousand years of unbroken regional continuity with no equivalent anywhere on Earth. And a migration that reshaped an entire continent 4,000 years ago and then vanished from the genetic record completely.