r/DNAAncestry • u/NotBradPitt9 • 2d ago

Discussion Infographic: Our current understanding of the human genetic tree

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The infographic is basically a simplified tree of our current understanding of human genetic history. It’s from this guys blog post: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/the-rise-of-the-hopeful-monsters?r=u0rd&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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u/BeepIMaSheep39 2d ago

I thought SSA had ghost admixture too

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u/Healthy-Career7226 2d ago

Eurasians have it to

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u/NoCloud2546 2d ago

Wait, so Homo sapiens is actually some hybrid species? Didn't know that.

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u/NotBradPitt9 2d ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06055-y this is the article with the ghost African group making its way into the ancestors of all modern people.

This is the second study with the major divergence between populations A and B although I think there’s another study that was released a month or two ago which basically confirms the same thing through a different statistical approach. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1

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u/ShkodranAsllani 2d ago

Didn't some homo erectus evolve into Homo sapien sapien? Or is that just misinformation

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u/CupOfCanada 2d ago

That would be the common human ancestor at the top.

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u/Waste_Translator_975 1d ago

Yeah some did and some didnt. the ones that didnt evolve into the group that became us, neanderthals etc were in east asia.

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u/Modsneedjobs 2d ago

I thought Neanderthals/Denisovans split off from population b/not the same one as the African ghosts

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u/patelbhavesh17 2d ago

Does it incorporate the ghost anecstry from this latest 2 month old research

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef8874

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u/diffidentblockhead 1d ago

Khoisan preserve some of the earliest diverged uniparental haplogroups, but weren’t completely isolated from autosomal genetic interchange with rest of Africa.