if we say that we have modern homo sapiens in ourarea, we have to consider all our knowledge regardingnterbreeding with other populations. the tools used by these modern humans, called the misliya people, were much more advanced than those used by the more primitive species that they lived alongside. so there were the people before misliya, people who made these kinds of tools. and the people who came with misliya were starting to use another technology, which is much more sophisticated. these tools were used for cutting, for slicing, and projectiles for hunting. the current view is that we evolved relatively recently, just as other types of humans were dying out. but the new study suggests that we are a more ancient species that shared the planet with primitive humans for tens of thousands of years. we can speak now to doctor mina weinstein—evron, an archaeologist from the university of haifa, who you saw there at the end of that report. she joins us live now from haifa via webcam. thank you forjoining us. can you explain why this finding is so important? it is important because it is