Investigations & syntheses
Long-form, documented and sourced articles connecting discoveries and telling the great transformations of humankind.
In 2010, a single finger bone discovered in a Siberian cave revealed the existence of an entirely unknown human species: the Denisovans. Cousins of the Neanderthals, they populated Asia for hundreds of thousands of years before merging genetically into us.
Read more →From a single finger bone dug up in Siberia, genetics conjured an unknown humanity. Denisovans still live on in the DNA of Asian and Oceanian peoples, and one of their genes now helps Tibetans breathe at altitude.
Read more →Far from the textbook brute: tools, art, burials, and 1 to 2% of their genome still in us. An inquiry into a humanity that vanished, yet lives on.
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