Researchers looking at the evolution of humans have discovered a strange DNA in the intricate origin of our species. The study examined eight popular theories of human origins and evolution using artificial intelligence (AI) and discovered evidence of a ghost population of early humans. The research results were released in Nature Communications. The research was first conducted in 2019, and the findings indicated that early humans interacted with a long-extinct group of hominins and interbred with them, though only fragmented traces of their DNA remain today.
Evolutionists had previously assumed that only Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred, but this study has revealed the existence of the third group of species.
A portion of the human population, which already included modern humans, left the African continent around 80,000 years ago and migrated to other continents, giving rise to all the current populations.
Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico (CNAG-CRG), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and the University of Tartu found the footprint of a new hominid that crossed bred with its ancestor’s tens of thousands of years ago in the genome of Asiatic individuals, according to the study.
This was the first instance when deep learning was successfully employed to explain the human history, opening the door for its usage in other biological, genetic, and evolutionary problems.
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