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  • Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown 'Ghost' Ancestor in The Human Genome

    11/04/2021 9:18:43 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 64 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 25 OCTOBER 2021 | Peter Dockrill
    Denisova Cave in Siberia, Russia (Cheburgenator/ CC-BY-SA-4.0/Wikimedia Commons) =============================================================================== Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: a teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such strange uniqueness she looked to be a 'hybrid' ancestor to modern humans that scientists had never seen before. Only recently, researchers have uncovered evidence she wasn't alone. In a 2019 study analysing the complex mess of humanity's prehistory, scientists used artificial 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...