Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA

An archaic hominin. Image credit: Ninara / CC BY 2.0.

New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with two mysterious ‘ghost’ lineages: one in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, another in Eurasia over 1.7 million years ago.

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