In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

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The modern Homo Sapiens didn’t just follow other human species; they overlapped with them. Homo sapiens lived alongside Neanderthals and Denisovans, sometimes for thousands of years.