In this episode of Let's Talk Creation, Todd and Paul discuss the story of the Denisovans! From their first discovery from a finger bone in a Siberian cave to a jawbone dredged from the Taiwan Strait to a wartime discovery hidden for decades, the story of modern research on the Denisovans is astounding! In the latest episode, Todd and Paul explain the Denisovan story and how it relates to creationist understandings of hominin fossils.

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Materials Mentioned in this episode

Denisova Cave exteriorhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/QEH5QWJoCjMHZGpt9

Denisova Cave interiorhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/oBpYeTdA7vrmbjQz9

Paleoartist John Gurchehttps://gurche.com/

New human species?https://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-humanspecies.html

Denisovans againhttps://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2010/12/denisova-again.html

The Girl from Denisova Cavehttps://humangenesis.org/2018/08/22/the-girl-from-denisovacave/

Face to face at last!https://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2025/06/face-to-face-atlast.html

Harbin cranium modelhttps://sketchfab.com/3d-models/harbin-craniumreconstruction-54024c7d9dee4ac98b5dfa2f453e68b1

Artwork used for thumbnail: Uploaded a work by Fu et al.(2025) from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.040 withUploadWizard This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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