AI finds mystery human ancestor

[tangor]

The human genome is hiding secrets that point to a mystery ancestor alongside our hominid cousins the Neanderthals and Denisovans, according to AI software.

Homo sapiens, the only surviving species in the homo genus, once bred with its extinct relatives homo neanderthalensis and denisova hominins hundreds of thousands of years ago.

[theregister.co.uk...]
Whew! Without AI at work we'd have missed this!

(I hope the programmers didn't forget to cross a t or dot an i while writing the code...)

[iamlost]

Homo Tangorilla Musica - last seen riding a pteranodon over New Mexico...

[aristotle]

There's an old classic sci-fi movie called One-Million B.C. A tribe of dark-haired people encounters a tribe of blondes. I also seem to remember that they fought off a dinosaur that attacked some young women