14 points pepys 22 hours ago 4 comments
pfdietz 21 minutes ago | parent
Is there a replacement now for 23andMe?
Razengan 16 minutes ago | parent
When the mammoth is sus.
otterdude 4 minutes ago | parent
Finally we understand MAGA
bwnkl 1 minute ago | parent
> for example the 2026 discovery that interbreeding was predominantly between Neanderthal males and human females, and not between Neanderthal females and human males.
I thought this was an interesting detail in the article, and trying to find out more about a possible reason for this discrepancy, I found a recent paper concluding that this was possibly due to mate preference [1]. Neanderthal dudes were smoking hot!
[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aea6774