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The Fascinating Story Of Our Mysterious Relatives, The Denisovans, With Prof. Bence Viola
In 2010, a shocking discovery reverberated throughout the scientific community - a bone fragment previously thought to have belonged to a Neanderthal turned out to be a completely new species of archaic humans. Named after the Denisova cave in which the fragment was found, this mysterious new group was named the Denisovans.
But even two decades later, the answers about who exactly these people were, what they looked liked, and how they behaved are still few and far in between.
Fascinated yet undeterred by the lack of information, I talked to paleoanthropologist Prof. Bence Viola - one of the…
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