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Welcome to the science podcast for April 12, 2019. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show, I talk with contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade about a new hominin species,

something like a Denisovan or a Neanderthal, but this is new and very, very small, smaller than the so-called hobbit hominin.

And Megan Cantwell talks with Florian Schistel about observing real-time evolutionary change in flowering plants.

First up we have Lizzie Wade. She's back on the show this week to talk about a previously

undescribed type of ancient hominin. Hominens are things like Denisovins, Neanderthals homo florenciensis these are close cousins

of modern humans that have not survived into modern times except as bones and small bits of DNA

integrated into our genomes hi lizzie hi sarah so i'm really excited about more hominids. This find is actually based on

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