"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
As to the 6% thing that's in the the same sense that you got 50% of your genes from your mother. Most of the genes there will be identical to the ones your father has on a codon by codon basis but their origin is your mother. And by looking at the 1% of genes where humans vary from each other we can tell which genes came from this ghost population.
As to the 6% thing that's in the the same sense that you got 50% of your genes from your mother. Most of the genes there will be identical to the ones your father has on a codon by codon basis but their origin is your mother. And by looking at the 1% of genes where humans vary from each other we can tell which genes came from this ghost population.