We're the Last Human Species — There Used to Be 9

We're the only human species left — but that's only been true for a blink of geological time. For most of our story, the planet had several kinds of us walking around at once. This one's about the other eight: Floresiensis, the three-foot human on an Indonesian island. Naledi, possibly burying its dead with a brain a third the size of yours. And the Denisovans — an entire species we know almost entirely from a single pinky bone and the DNA still inside living people today. 📚 Sources / further reading: • Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Basic Books, 2014) • Reich, Green, Krause et al., "Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia" (Nature, 2010) • Lee Berger et al., Homo naledi excavation reports, Rising Star Cave (eLife, 2015 onward — interpretation of deliberate burial still debated) • Brown, Sutikna et al., "A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia" (Nature, 2004) • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 — press release on Svante Pääbo's work 🔔 Subscribe for a new piece of forgotten history every week 👇 If you could meet one of the other eight human species for a single afternoon, which one — and what would you want to ask them? 📩 [email protected] ⚠️ History reconstructed from limited sources. Where scholars disagree, this video says so. Presented for curiosity and education. #ancienthistory #history #humanevolution #denisovans #neanderthals #homonaledi #floresiensis #svantepaabo #lostspecies #humanorigins #anthropology #curiosity