Hybrid Humans
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Humans are humans. One species. Linear evolution. Ape to hominid to homo sapiens over six million years of slow, grinding, Darwinian selection. Clean line. Textbook diagram. Simple. Except, the textbook diagram keeps changing. Every decade, another branch appears. Another cousin species. Another interbreeding event. For example, Neanderthal DNA in Europeans. Denisovan DNA in East Asians and Pacific Islanders. “Ghost populations” (the geneticists’ actual term) showing up in African genomes. Ancestral DNA from species we have never found a single bone of. We carry the genetic fingerprint of beings that left no physical trace on Earth except inside us.