It changes what we think the study of the ancient past is capable of.

It means that the story of our origins — the long, complex story of how modern humans emerged from the ancient world they shared with other human groups — is more accessible than we had believed.

Denny’s bone is in a storage facility in Leipzig.

The genome it contains has been analyzed, published, discussed, and built upon.

The finding it embodies — one of the most improbable, most specific, and most profound in the history of the study of human origins — will be part of the scientific record for as long as that record exists.

She was a girl who lived for perhaps fifteen years in the mountains of Siberia, 90,000 years ago.