Girl Has Parents From A Different Species

She started at the evidence of the sample in pure bewilderment. She couldn’t believe her eyes. How could this be? She ran the test again, just to be sure.

Slon had the answer to a question she never knew she needed before. It changed her view on the world and how she knew it.

Viviane Slon

Viviane Slon loved her job as a paleogeneticist. But she had no idea what she would find in her lab in Leipzig, Germany.

Viviane always wondered where humanity’s roots came from. She was always looking for evidence, which would lead her to a startling discovery.

More Than It Seemed

Scientists looked in a cave in Siberia in 2012 and found a piece of ancient bone. The bone was overlooked and thrown into a pile of other fossils.

The bone was seen as just an ordinary sample of an early human species called Denisova.

Denisova

At the time Denisova was discovered researchers found a bone and a tooth in the Altai mountains. These would from the very same species – Denisova.

There are a number of hominins recorded to date. The earliest known human ancestors date back to more than four million years ago.

All The Unknowns

The first of our ancestors to walk on their hind legs where Australopithecines. These people evolved in ancient Africa.

Homo Sapiens evolved around 250,000 years ago. But Slong needed to find more, she would go to any means to find it.