How A New Human Species Was Discovered Almost By Accident

[ericcantona]

Is this why some people are built like a house and some people are built like asparagus

[sunitamosesesq]

I think it's amazing that in grade school, they don't really teach that there were so many different species of humans.

[jamesallan]

As a Kiwi, I've always thought that indigenous Australians look so far apart from other Pacifica people and wondered about that.

[enrip]

I took Anthropology in college and OMG I was shocked throughout the whole semester. I loved learning about all of the human genome and professor would always end the class with “ as far as we know “ it left us feeling like wow there’s more info out there that we haven’t discovered yet

[jameshudson]

they used to tell us that neanderthals couldn't and didn't interbred with humans. i called BS on that at the time.

[shinobi_]

I'm Papua New Guinean. Yes I believe our ancestors came from Asia. Because our cultures and customs are very similar.

[netto]

It amazes how they can figure out a complete specimen out of a pinky. Respect!

[topcat]

Who ever layed down with one of these things was a freak. 😂

[smitchwhite]

As a person who knows nothing about humans and constantly plays Minecraft, I can confirm that the bone is genuine

[kathibarry]

I believe you, I live in Australia and always believes our Aboriginal people look so different, like from a different planet, I love they wisdom and believe very much

[Richard-rcvf]

Yeah right. Every time they find some random bone that is a new human species, ten years later it turns out to be a pig, or monkey bone.

[markrobinson]

How the hell, does one find a piece of a300, 000 year old pinky bone, that looks like a rock? I find that amazing within itself.

[Xru]

I wonder how many unknown human species are still floating around waiting to be discovered.

[mistahgreentv]

I love the way scientists now show these history in black and white winks....

[deqadirir]

Mr. Graham Hancock, whom I knew as a kid in Kenya, is truly brilliant & an underrated journalised. I salute you, Sir, for correcting history, to write the least. 👊🏼

[jos_targaryen]

a lot of people asking why this isn’t taught in schools but it is, i paid to go into this field and if i would’ve learned this as a child i would’ve been way too overwhelmed to make any sense of it because if you aren’t going into anthropology or a natural science field you won’t have any need to know any of this. even if you are going into anthropology this is something that is already completed and recorded, you likely won’t be doing additional work over what’s already on the record unless we somehow discover another subspecies of humans.

[beatricearie]

That’s my ancestors. Proud Iban from Sarawak, Borneo

[Okay-prfp]

So everything we know about denisovans is based off a tiny piece of a pinky bone?

[AlB-zu]

hmmm that's very interesting! One of Indian ancient scripts mentions where their ancestors came from. Surprisingly not from West(africa) or East, but from North. Far North. As u can see on the map their gens are in India too.

[Trentonius]

Yeah, the missing link is already on earth, but it's not proper to call them that...