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Top Comments: Mating Bias Between Neanderthals and Modern Humans

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (186+ words) The question arises regarding what kind of encounters occurred between the two species, and a new report has details. "The modern human X chromosome contains very little to no Neanderthal DNA, which implies that most of the liaisons were between…...

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ESSAY II " The Population Blender: Climate, Contact, and Why Homo sapiens Scaled

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1107+ words) When we imagine prehistoric humans, we almost always imagine them incorrectly. The usual picture is familiar: small, evenly scattered bands drifting slowly across vast, mostly empty landscapes, rarely encountering one another. Given the population numbers involved'perhaps only tens of thousands…...