Sure, when you're looking at bacteria vs humans these guys are like our twins. But these non-homo hominins were not even our ancestors, they are close to Deniso

Sure, when you're looking at bacteria vs humans these guys are like our twins. But these non-homo hominins were not even our ancestors, they are close to Denisovans https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12788 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12788 Our last common ancestor was ~990k years ago (table 1). That's quite long ago in human development