Penny Sarchet

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1,050 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

Penny Sarchet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · New Discovery Reveals the Secret Lives of Denisovans · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

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Yeah, and we know now that Neanderthals had art, and what does that mean about humans and art and what art is? voice-verified

That's just one of the reasons that all of these new discoveries we're making about ancient humans are so thrilling, voice-verified

exciting. voice-verified

And that's what's especially cool about this latest discovery, which is telling us more about the technology that Denisovans used and how they lived. voice-verified

And to tell us about that, we've got science writer Mike Marshall here. voice-verified

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Mike, tell us about this new study then. voice-verified

And so let's step back a bit and say 100,000 years ago, could you tell us about the different kinds of humans that we were sharing the planet with back then? voice-verified

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And we are getting a bit of a geographical shift, aren't we? voice-verified

Because, you know, they're named for this cave in Siberia and there were some cool studies of Tibet. voice-verified

But increasingly, these new findings, they're centering on China. voice-verified

And this is the first artifact so far that we've had from southwestern China. voice-verified

And so this is Bianfu Cave in Yunnan province. voice-verified

Could you tell us what sort of time period these fragments are covering? voice-verified

But that said, we then interbred with them, didn't we? voice-verified

So people of European ancestry have some Neanderthal in them. voice-verified

And then people of East Asian ancestry can have quite a high proportion of Denisovan. voice-verified

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