
Jason Voorhees
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Scientists from Max Planck resequenced two ancient individuals from Takarkori (Libya), ~9,000-7,000 years ago. They found ~93% of their ancestry came from an unknown North African lineage diverging before the Out of Africa expansion meaning this group never left Africa These people had much lower Neanderthal admixture than Eurasians indicating distinct ghosts and multiple introgression events within northern Africa
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TLDR-They found multiple distinct ghost DNAs in African populations. They found segments of DNAs that did not match any known archaic human group (like Neanderthals or Denisovans) we have no bones or fossils available to identify them properly .These segments diverged from modern human DNA around 360,000 to 1 million years ago too ancient to be from known recent ancestors.The DNA is present in modern-day Yoruba, Mende and multiple groups in north and west Africa meaning there was ancient interbreeding and the mixing was way more complex than previously thought
Takarkori - Wikipedia

West Africans Carry DNA from Mysterious Archaic Hominin | Genetics, Paleoanthropology | Sci-News.com
Four West African populations -- Yoruba, Esan, Mende, and Gambian -- derive 2 to 19% of their genetic ancestry from a yet-undiscovered species of archaic hominin that diverged before the split of modern humans and the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans, according to new research from the...

TLDR-They found multiple distinct ghost DNAs in African populations. They found segments of DNAs that did not match any known archaic human group (like Neanderthals or Denisovans) we have no bones or fossils available to identify them properly .These segments diverged from modern human DNA around 360,000 to 1 million years ago too ancient to be from known recent ancestors.The DNA is present in modern-day Yoruba, Mende and multiple groups in north and west Africa meaning there was ancient interbreeding and the mixing was way more complex than previously thought
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