Homo sapiens is a pretty impressive species. All of our successes are the fortunate result of a tremendous evolutionary journey from ape to the hominins who would become modern humans. Along the way, other human relatives emerged and disappeared. On Wednesday, researchers welcomed the newest long-gone relative: Homo luzonensis. Here’s a quick guide to some of the other archaic humans that filled out the branches on our evolutionary tree, and what we have learned from them.

Source: New York Times April 10, 2019 20:48 UTC