Family trees are an exciting way of getting in touch with your roots, but unfortunately most of these charts only go back a couple hundred years. Luckily for us, a group of Australian scientists just took a much deeper dive into humankind’s ancestry. Thousands of years in our past, they found a genetic connection between homo sapiens and another species that they never expected. The groundbreaking discovery is changing our entire conception of what it really means to be “human”.
