Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 14:21 in Biology & Nature

By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, investigators have identified, in the genome of Asian individuals, the footprint of a new hominid who cross bred with its ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

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