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Scientists utilized a brand-new approach to discover covert DNA contributions from extinct human groups in modern-day genomes.
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Traces of 2 “ghost lineages” of extinct human populations lie concealed within our genome, a brand-new research study exposes.
Among these ghost family trees left its DNA spread in all contemporary individuals. The other, a “super-archaic” family tree, goes back almost 2 million years, scientists reported Thursday (July 30) in the journal Science
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Charles Q. Choi is a contributing author for Live Science and Space.com. He covers all things human origins and astronomy along with physics, animals and basic science subjects. Charles has a Master of Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. Charles has actually checked out every continent in the world, consuming rancid yak butter tea in Lhasa, snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos and even climbing up an iceberg in Antarctica.
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