When Earth Had 6 Human Species at the Same Time

For almost your entire story as a species, you were never alone. There was a time, not so long ago in the deep arithmetic of evolution, when at least six different kinds of human breathed the same air at once. You meet the cold-adapted Neanderthals of Europe, the ghostly Denisovans of Siberia, the meter-tall "hobbit" Homo floresiensis, and the others who shared the planet between roughly 300,000 and 40,000 years ago. You learn what archaeologists like Svante Pääbo, Mike Morwood, and the team at Denisova Cave have pieced together from a fingerbone, a few teeth, and ancient DNA still carried inside your own cells. You discover why the others vanished while your line endured. And you confront the strangest fact of all: being the only human is the exception, not the rule. If this rewired how you see your own species, like and subscribe for more journeys into deep human history. #humanevolution #neanderthal #denisovan #homofloresiensis #hobbithuman #prehistory #ancienthumans #earlyhumans #paleontology #anthropology #humanorigins #stoneage #archaeology #ancientdna #svantepaabo #denisovacave #homosapiens #extinctspecies # deeptime #hominins #evolution #ancienthistory #science #flores #luzon