Experts Discover Girl Born From Two Different Species

She couldn’t believe what she was looking at. The sample showed her evidence that she had never considered. She repeated it just in case with the same result.

Slon found the answers she never knew she needed from the girl they had found. This showed new perspective on the world that had once been.

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.