FILE PHOTO: People gather at Osun sacred river during the annual worship festival in honor of the river goddess "Osun" in Osogbo, southwest Nigeria that draws tens of thousands of ethnic Yoruba Nigerians and others, August 31, 2007. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind's complicated genetic ancestry.
The study indicated that present-day West Africans trace a substantial proportion, some 2% to 19%, of their genetic ancestry to an extinct human species - what the researchers called a "ghost population."
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