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Just visit historyhit.com slash subscribe. We are used to sharing our planet with millions of other species, but only one human species has survived.

Homo sapiens, modern humans, us. Now, this wasn't always the

case. Early in our story, tens of thousands of years ago, we lived alongside several other species

of humans, relatives who shared our world, who evolved alongside us, sometimes competing, sometimes

coexisting, and ultimately suffering extinction, like the Neanderthals in Europe and the Denisovans

in Asia.

Human evolution is less like a family tree and more like a tangled web, with new discoveries

revealing more about this every year.

Welcome to the ancients.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and this is the story of the early humans who once shared

our world.

Our guest is the paleoanthropologist, presenter, comedian and author

Ella al-Shemahi. Ella's new tour, becoming human, continues in the UK on the 28th of May.

Ella, it is great to have you back on the show.

Well, thanks so much for having me. I had so much fun last time.

It was a lot of fun. And today we're kind of doing a tour of our extinct human relatives, archaic humans.

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