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When There Was More Than One Kind of Human | Sleep Story

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For most of human history, there was never only one kind of us. The world was shared by different kinds of people, moving through the same valleys, caves, and cold landscapes.

A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing you'll miss if you drift off partway.

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Tonight: Neanderthals in the west, Denisovans across Asia, and the caves, fires, tools, injuries, families, and fragments of DNA they left behind. We move through Denisova Cave, the Tibetan plateau, ancient hearths, buried bones, and the quiet evidence…

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