# 400,000-year-old teeth reveal a stunning twist in human evolution

- Source: Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
- Published: 2026-11-05T13:05:12+00:00
- Category: Science
- Original: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/11/261102202836.htm
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/400-000-year-old-teeth-reveal-a-stunning-twist-in-human-evolution-0104c7/

A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in people alive today. By extracting proteins from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth discovered in China, scientists uncovered evidence suggesting that these early humans interbred with Denisovans, another mysteriou

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