The potential of the west-african ghost hominid to be Homo Naledi or some other, already known species? Seeing how they're like, 6.5% of the modern west-african genome, I think it'd be pretty interesting to see what traits they might have grabbed from them. (I got the 6.5% figure by averaging confirmed ancestry across the different west-african groups that I know have been tested so far. Peaks at 7% and craters at 5.8%. Honestly a bit dissapointed it didn't meet the mean of the initial 2-19% estimate, would've been far more interesting...)Regarding that second-to-last part, a crank theory of mine is that they, whoever they were, may have greatly altered west-african verbal intellect in some way, which I only think by virtue of the EA PGS having literally zero ability to predict the reading ability of African-Americans, which I don't recall being anywhere near true for any non-SSA group.
>>16923008it's almost entirely west african and only a subset of ancestries with smaller amounts found elsewhere both in and outside of africa it's not particularly interesting
>>16923021I thought it was found in significant amounts for all SSA's. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-019-1684-5Never heard about non-SSA's potentially having some though. Your source?
>>16923027Actually, I'm not sure if any data exists for east-africans... The mixing was fairly recent so they could've dodged quite a bit of it, but I don't see them having none. Those in MENA should also have a tiny amount given their SSA ancestry, but I don't see Ghost DNA getting any farther from SSA than that.
>>16923033I just remembered Latin America exists and retract my previous statement about Ghost not making it farther than MENA.
>>16923027The pattern was seen among Chinese and fucking Mormons.This is the study where the famous 19% claim originates. It also included Han Chinese and Utah residents in their data set.https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097This "ghost DNA" is found basically everywhere. But the most significant portions are isolated to some populations of West Africa.
>>16923166Interesting. Most or at least some significant part of the mixing appears to be recent. It stretching that far back shows that it was definitely a slow, gradual process.
>>16923027>currently extinct>currentlyWhat are they planning?
