Arun Durvasula and Sriram Sankararaman from the University of California in Los Angeles confirmed up to 19% archaic Hominid DNA in modern Africans. They have described the ancestor as a “ghost species” or, quite possibly, Homo naledi, a “small-brained hominin” on the “African plains 250,000 years ago.” As if the term “small-brained hominin” hadn’t been stated bluntly enough, Africans are “genetically closer to primitive hominins or chimpanzees,” according to geneticist Shi Huang.