The People Who Lived in Denisova Cave | SciShow News

Once upon a time, we coexisted with other human species. And there’s one place on Earth that may have taught us more about that than any other single site.

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[luckycat]

Denisovans are my favorite prehistoric human species to learn about. Still so many mysteries about them!

[ktvx.]

Denisovan kid: "my legacy will be remembered for eons to come!"
His Neanderthal mom: "I'm sure it will. Go eat your mammoth before it gets cold."

[brandonkarl]

I’ve always struggled in science classes, but Hank makes learning about science so fun

[bobthegoat]

It is hard to imagine that just 11 years ago we hadn't even discovered Denisovans and now we such detailed stuff like the information in this video

[TwinShards]

Me: This is just dirt.
Science: WOAH DIRT IN CAVE!

[jimspace]

Prehistoric travel guide: “What happens at Denisova Cave stays at Denisova Cave.”

[menameh]

Before I even started really getting into the video. His Pizza shirt confused the hell out of my eyes. It was like the focus on a camera getting confused and shifting

[nessbailey]

I’m an undergrad, I work for my professor on multiple projects using eDNA (and soon eRNA). Our projects focus on fish and use water samples to collect our DNA but it’s the exact same concept!

[sheldon]

its a good day when you hear that we have new info about Denisovans

[kwisin]

Hank for man of the year....

No joke.

You Hank, you are a special person that needs to be thanked more then you recive imo.

THANK YOU & your team for providing all of us with your HARD WORK. Please keep it up.

[Starfals]

Its crazy how we didn't know about them until very recently, and now we know so much.
When i was watching Friends in the '90s this was not even on the radar. Thinking about that cus Ross always used to talk about bones from the ancient people in the tv show.

[conner.c]

I imagine that reunion in the chamber between Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans like that scene from Avengers movie when the main three stop fighting at the forest.

[nifdoowo]

It would be a marvel to comprehend what is said, but all I see is PIZZA.

[FishieDr]

You guys should do a video on the new stuff that's just come out about genes that cause Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) also occurring in men, being linked to obesity, diabetes and male pattern baldness.

[TheEnabledDisabled]

That type of way of learning the history, can help us reveal so much about our prehistory

[richardlandrum]

I still maintain that the dungeons and dragons mythology (which I think is altered Tolkien mythology [i.e. elves dwarves halflings]), is a remnant interpretation of multiple kinds of humans living in the same time period.

[RandallStephens]

I have this wonderful image in my head of a time when there's two different human species with a timeshare on a cave. Like, some kind of paleolithic rom-com about two families who never meet, but recognize each other by what they left behind at the condo in Aspen at the end of the season. Then leaving little notes for each other. Then talking on the phone after someone accidentally broke a valued trinket. Something something wedding, something something complete.

[AngryKittens]

Another mystery: Australo-Melanesians (including Negritos and Orang Asli) have denisovan dna in island southeast asia new guinea and australia (which they passed on to Austronesians), but not in mainland asia, which means denisovans may have encountered humans as well somewhere in the now sunken Sundaland landmass

[xostler]

Oo I been waiting for a follow up to this subject!!

[safety_sid]

My guess is the cave was a generational trading location for tribes. A sort of unspoken neutral ground to trade goods. Tribes in Alaska used this tactic for trading between parties that were not exactly friendly, but still needed to trade goods to survive. I've heard stories that two merchants would post up in a location like the cave for weeks haggling out the trades that they felt were most fair - almost like a modern day stock trader.