A New Human Ancestor Has Been Discovered Thanks To Artificial Intelligence

It's a well-known fact that there was a lot of interspecies mingling back in the day. Modern humans have fragments of DNA from our ancient relatives, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans – and now, a third, previously unknown, mystery species. An international team of researchers have examined human DNA using deep learning algorithms to analyze genetic clues to human evolution for the very first time. The results are published in the journal Nature Communications. It's long been suspected that, further to the Neanderthals and Denisovans, people of Asian descent have a third ancestor that interbred with ancient humans.