HUMANS27 November 2022
https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ai-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome
Denisova Cave in Siberia, Russia.(Cheburgenator/ CC-BY-SA-4.0/Wikimedia Commons)
Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: Ateenage girl from over 50,000 years agoof such odd uniqueness she appeared to be a ‘hybrid’ ancestor to modern humans that scientists hadn’t seen before.
Only recently, researchers have uncovered evidence she wasn’t alone. In a 2019 study analyzing the tangled mess of humanity’s prehistory, scientists usedartificial intelligence(AI) to identify an unknown human ancestor species that modern humans encountered – and shared dalliances with – on the long trek out of Africa millennia ago.
“About 80,000 years ago, the so-called Out of Africa occurred, when part of the human population, which already consisted of modern humans, abandoned the African continent and migrated to other continents, giving rise to all the current populations,”explainedevolutionary biologist Jaume Bertranpetit from the…
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