SCIENCESCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Everyone alive may carry DNA from a ‘ghost lineage’ of human ancestors
Scientists analyzing modern genomes may have discovered a long-lost branch of the human family tree, suggesting that everyone alive might carry DNA from a 'ghost lineage' of human ancestors.
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