Zlatý kůň’s ancestry appears distinct — more isolated, or representing a different branch of the dispersal tree.

The extinction of her lineage was confirmed by the expanded dataset.

More modern and ancient genomes were available for comparison, and none showed the distinctive ancestral signature that Zlatý kůň carries.

The absence is real, not an artifact of limited sampling.

The paper also addressed the broader context of Upper Paleolithic population history in Europe, placing Zlatý kůň within a more complex and better-populated picture of who was living in Europe during those earliest millennia of modern human presence.

The conclusion that emerges is of a period of extraordinary diversity and dynamism — multiple lineages, multiple waves of dispersal, complex interactions — followed by a winnowing that left only some populations’ descendants to constitute the ancestry of later Europeans.