Prehistoric Relatives? AI Detects That Ancient Human Ancestor Existed Before Us

Did humans have prehistoric ancestors we didn't know about yet? AI seems to suggest so. Did humans have prehistoric ancestors we didn't know about yet? AI seems to suggest so. An artificial intelligence system has identified a previously unknown human ancestor that roamed the planet tens of thousands of years ago and left a genomic footprint in Asian individuals, scientists say. By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, researchers from the University of Tartu in Estonia, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain, found that the extinct species was a hybrid of Neanderthals and Denisovans and cross bred with modern humans in Asia.