Neanderthals

Neanderthals Lost their “Y” Chromosome

  • Neanderthals have long been seen as uber-masculine hunks, at least compared with their lightweight human cousins, with whom they competed for food, territory, and mates. 
  • Neanderthal fossils happened to be poorly preserved or contaminated with bacteria.
  • Not only did it give modern humans Neanderthal DNA, but it also changed Neanderthals in fundamental ways.

Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome, How? writes Ann Gibbons for Science.

What happened?

A new study finds Homo sapiens men essentially...

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Researchers Find Interbreeding Between Humans and Neanderthals

  • A new analysis of the genomes of the most famous of ancient humans Neanderthals and Denisovans has revealed an as-yet-unidentified ancestor for our species.
  • It is a branch of our distant family tree without any known label to put to it.
  • The study also finds further evidence of interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals, some 200,000 to 300,000 years ago.
  • This interbreeding would therefore add new insight into the increasingly complicated history of our emergence as a species , and of our...

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