Homo

The Denisovans: Unraveling the Mystery of Our Ancient Cousins For decades, the Neanderthals held the spotlight as the closest extinct relatives to modern humans. But the discovery of the Denisovans has added a fascinating layer to our understanding of human ancestry. Who Were the Denisovans? A distinct group of archaic humans who lived during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods. Known primarily from scant fossil remains found in Denisova Cave in Siberia, Russia....

100,000 years ago there were 6 different homo species living on planet earth. It is believed that Homo habilis was the species that the other six species evolved from.Homo habilis is an extinct species of early human that lived in eastern and southern Africa approximately 2.3 to 1.4 million years ago during the Early Pleistocene epoch. The species was first discovered in 1960 by Louis Leakey and his team in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania....