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Every population may carry DNA from a ghost hominin lineage
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Every population may carry DNA from a…

A Science study analyzed 503 modern genomes with a new TRACE model and found archaic ancestry that matches no known Neanderthal or Denisovan sequence in every population tested. Roughly 0.5 to 1 percent of non-African genomes may come from a branch that split off more than 500,000 years ago.