{"id":129491,"date":"2021-10-25T06:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/artificial-intelligence-has-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:22:34","slug":"artificial-intelligence-has-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/artificial-intelligence-has-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown \u2018Ghost\u2019 Ancestor in The Human Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-has-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only recently, researchers have uncovered evidence she wasn\u2019t alone. In a 2019 study analyzing the complex mess of humanity\u2019s prehistory, scientists used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"artificial intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) to identify an unknown human ancestor species that modern humans encountered \u2013 and shared dalliances with \u2013 on the long trek out of Africa millennia ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 80,000 years ago, the so-called Out of Africa occurred, when part of the human population, which already consisted of modern humans, abandoned the African continent and migrated to other continents, giving rise to all the current populations\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-01\/cfgr-aia011619.php\">explained<\/a> evolutionary biologist Jaume Bertranpetit from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>As modern humans forged this path into the landmass of Eurasia, they forged some other things too \u2013 breeding with ancient and extinct hominids from other species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only recently, researchers have uncovered evidence she wasn\u2019t alone. In a 2019 study analyzing the complex mess of humanity\u2019s prehistory, scientists used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify an unknown human ancestor species that modern humans encountered \u2013 and shared dalliances with \u2013 on the long trek out of Africa millennia ago. \u201cAbout 80,000 years ago, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}