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Discover the ancient humans living across Asia when Homo sapiens arrived. Our ancestors mated with them and their genes found a home within our DNA. More than that, they’ve helped us face down extinction.
Explore what motivated early human migration to Asia.
Discover the ancient humans living across Asia when Homo sapiens arrived.
Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.
Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.
Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.
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