Traces of mystery ancient humans found lurking in our genomes

Prehistoric humans were sexual adventurers, mating with Neanderthals and Denisovans, but DNA studies reveal dalliances with populations we never knew existed.

Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave

Skov et al. Ancient DNA from a group of Neanderthals who lived together has given us an unprecedented glimpse of the social structure of these ...

A Genetic Ghost Hunt: What Ancient Humans Live On In Our DNA?

Instead, a recent paper from her lab looking at traces of Denisovan DNA in modern genomes found two distinct Denisovan-like groups. One ...

Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA ...

The researchers also found that 1% of the Denisovan genome hails from the genes of an unknown ancestor, from an interbreeding event that must ...

Origin story: Rewriting human history through our DNA

But we carry evidence of these other species with us. Lurking within our genome are traces of genetic material from a variety of ancient humans ...

DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious ...

In the case of Denisovans, we find small traces of their genome in people from all over Asia – especially in Papua New Guinea, and in the island ...

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Ancient genomes show how humans escaped Europe's deep freeze

Their remains were found with artefacts attributed to another pan-European material culture known for its figurines, called the Gravettian. When ...

Humans bred with this mysterious species more than once, new ...

DNA from another human-like primate, the Denisovans, lurks in modern genomes, too. A molar and a chip of pinkie bone found in a Siberian ...

DNA from an ancient, unidentified ancestor was passed down to ...

The researchers found evidence that 3 percent of the Neanderthal genome came from ancient humans, and estimate that the interbreeding ...

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The Mythical March of Progress - Genetics Unzipped

The result of these 'get togethers' is that our modern genomes contain snippets of DNA from these other ancient humans. Most of us with European ...

Remarkable stories about DNA - QIAGEN

However, the handful of fossils found were not large or complete enough to reconstruct many anatomical details. A team of scientists from Israel managed to ...

DNA from an ancient, unidentified ancestor was passed down to ...

A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans ...

Traces of two unknown extinct human species discovered lurking in ...

TWO extinct ancient human ancestors have been discovered in our DNA.Early humans met members of the mysterious species in locations across ...

Researchers Use AI to Discover Evidence of Unknown Human ...

Scientists discovered evidence pointing to a previously unknown ancestor to humans after scouring the human genome using artificial intelligence.

Traces of mystery ancient humans found lurking in our genomes

Prehistoric humans were sexual adventurers, mating with Neanderthals and Denisovans, but DNA studies reveal dalliances with populations we ...

A Mysterious Ancestor of Humans May Lurk in Some Modern ...

Researchers have now analyzed samples of ancient genomes and have identified yet another archaic ancestor that contributed material to the human ...

Scientists Say A Mystery Species Bred with Ancient Humans in ...

The results echo previous findings from 2013 in which the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, was found to contain a segment ...

What's Lurking in Your DNA? The Neanderthal Truth Revealed

How Neanderthal Are You? Top Geneticist Shares Surprising Truth About Neanderthal Heritage. Joshua Akey of Harvard University shares ...