The others (Image: Simon Pemberton)
They lived on the planet with us for most of our history, yet until six years ago we didn’t know they existed. Meet the species rewriting human evolution
THERE was very little to go on – just the tiniest fragment of a finger bone. What’s more, it was clear that whoever it had once belonged to was long dead. This was the coldest of cold cases. Yet, there was also a suspicion that the remains, discovered in a cave high up in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, had a story to tell. So Michael…
