This Girl Born From Two Different Species Challenges Everything We Know About Humans

Back to the Beginning

For context, we must go back to prehistoric times, to learn about two species very similar to humans. The first one, the Australopithecines, had first appeared about 4 million years ago in Africa. While they had the ability to walk and climb, in most respects they were very different from what we now refer to as Homo sapiens. Gradually, changes arose — things such as bigger brains, the ability to hunt and eat meat, and longer legs to walk and run faster.

Homo Heidelbergensis

The second — an offshoot of the Homo species that slowly grew to resemble the modern human more and more — was known as Homo Heidelbergensis. This variant first appeared 700,000 years ago in Africa and Eurasia, and was even more different from the ones that came before.