In 2010 geneticists uncovered an entirely new branch of human evolution, which they called the Denisovans. Since then archaeologists have been on the hunt for this lost population. Today, with the help of Geneticist Joao Teixeira we make that argument that we did find them, we found quite a few of them and we found them 100 years ago. Sources: Reich, David, et al. “Genetic History of an Archaic Hominin Group from Denisova Cave in Siberia.” Nature, vol. 468, no. 7327, 2010, pp. 1053–1060., https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09710. Teixeira, João C., et al. “Widespread Denisovan Ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but No Evidence of Substantial Super-Archaic Hominin Admixture.” Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 5, no. 5, 2021, pp. 616–624., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01408-0. Rizal, Yan, et al. “Last Appearance of Homo Erectus at Ngandong, Java, 117,000–108,000 Years Ago.” Nature, vol. 577, no. 7790, 2019, pp. 381–385., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1863-2. Détroit, Florent, et al. “A New Species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines.” Nature, vol. 568, no. 7751, 2019, pp. 181–186., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9. Oppenoorth, William F. “Solo Man—a New Fossil Skull.” Scientific American, vol. 147, no. 3, 1932, pp. 154–155., https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0932-154. Hayes, Elspeth H., et al. “65,000-Years of Continuous Grinding Stone Use at Madjedbebe, Northern Australia.” Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15174-x. Westaway, K., Louys, J., Awe, R. et al. An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago. Nature 548, 322–325 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23452 Rogers, Alan R., et al. “Neanderthal-Denisovan Ancestors Interbred with a Distantly-Related Hominin.” 2019, https://doi.org/10.1101/657247. Zeitoun, Valery, et al. “Solo Man in Question: Convergent Views to Split Indonesian Homo Erectus in Two Categories.” Quaternary International, vol. 223-224, 2010, pp. 281–292., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.01.018. Jacobs, Guy S., et al. “Multiple Deeply Divergent Denisovan Ancestries in Papuans.” Cell, vol. 177, no. 4, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.035. https://www.patreon.com/stefanmilo Disclaimer: Use my videos as a rough guide to a topic. I am not an expert, I may get things wrong. This is why I always post my sources so you can critique my work and verify things for yourselves. Of course I aim to be as accurate as possible which is why you will only find reputable sources in my videos. Secondly, information is always subject to changes as new information is uncovered by archaeologists. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.stefanmilo.com www.twitter.com/Historysmilo www.instagram.com/historysmilo