Identify an unknown species of human ancestors by artificial intelligence

The AI was trained to analyze the human genome and predict its demographics by simulating how our DNA could have evolved over time. His conclusion was that there is a species present in our lineage that remains unidentified. 

Can machines teach us something about the meaning of the human being? To the great question that science fiction has tried so many times to make, now a truthful fact is added: a study through an AI has identified evidences of a "phantom population" of human ancestors.

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The analysis suggests that a previously unknown and extinct group of hominids crossed Homo sapiens in Asia and Oceania somewhere along the path of human evolutionary history, leaving only fragmented traces in modern human DNA.

According to the biologist Jaume Bertranpetit, of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain: "Around 80,000 years ago part of the human population that was already formed by modern humans left the African continent and emigrated to other continents, giving rise to all the current populations" .

The application of this type of analysis through an AI is an innovative technique in the field of human ancestry. A huge surprise, as the researchers explain, "it turns out that if parts of Neanderthals and Denisovans are subtracted, there is still something in the genome that was highly divergent." The future was this: an AI telling us part of who we are today going back thousands of years back in time.