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Two Ghost Ancestors Found Hiding in Human DNA

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Aug 01, 2026
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Two extinct human populations have turned up in the genomes of people alive today. Neither has been sequenced from a fossil. Neither has a name. One of them contributed DNA to every living human, and…

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