Science Magazine(@ScienceMagazine):A new computational approach that can detect ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without requiring archaic reference genomes reveals a more complex picture of human evolution than previously imagined. Leveraging this approach, researchers report in Science that an unidentified "ghost" population contributed DNA to the ancestors of all modern humans before they dispersed out of Africa. Learn more:

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A new computational approach that can detect ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without requiring archaic reference genomes reveals a more complex picture of human evolution than previously imagined. Leveraging this approach, researchers report in Science that an unidentified "ghost" population contributed DNA to the ancestors of all modern humans before they dispersed out of Africa. Learn more: