But it is there.

She was mostly of modern human ancestry, with a small but traceable contribution from the archaic population that Europe had been home to for hundreds of thousands of years before her kind arrived.

The Extinction of Her People

The fact that Zlatý kůň’s genetic lineage has no known modern descendants is perhaps the most philosophically striking finding that her genome yielded.

It raises questions about what evolutionary and demographic success means, about the complex and non-linear history of human populations, and about what it means for us to reconstruct and face this individual from the past.