Interesting read.
What kind of society was this? Was it just rape?
There’s likely no way for us to determine.
It’s difficult to determine if someone consented last night, never mind tens of thousands of years before the earliest written histories. We have precious little evidence of what societies were like during that time period.
Simple explanation: both matings occurred, but Neanderthal communities went extinct. So since the child is reared in the community of the mother, we only get Neanderthal male admixture
That was my first assumption on reading the title, but the article mentions two other things:
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The male-gene bias apparently persisted for subsequent generations after the initial human/Neanderthal pairing: male children of mixed ancestry had more offspring than their female siblings
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In Neanderthal communities, the bias was reversed (i.e., more human DNA was retained in the X-chromosome female line.)
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If the two species were biologically incompatible, modern human DNA should have been missing from Neanderthal X chromosomes as well. However, the analysis revealed that Neanderthal X chromosomes had a 62% excess of modern human DNA compared with their other chromosomes – a mirror-like reversal of the distribution of Neanderthal DNA in human populations.
I dunno—isn’t that still consistent with a scenario where there’s a specific incompatibility between some gene on the Neanderthal X chromosome and a human gene on some other chromosome?
Otherwise you have to have two parallel-but-opposite trends in human and Neanderthal societies, where human societies favor male offspring of human/Neanderthal unions, but Neanderthal societies favor female offspring.
(Maybe this is addressed in the full paper—I don’t have access.)
Genndy Tartakovsky was right!
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You can just save posts. It’s a star or bookmark sign somewhere, depending on what interface you’re using.
And even if that feature doesn’t exist, you still have the bookmark feature on your web browser. Posting like that is selfish
I often use “boost” as a way to mark stuff for later re-reading. It makes sense, if I want to read it again later then I probably think others would want to read it too.
No! 😯
You’re like those dudes that park across four spots because it was just simply more convenient for them.
I can appreciate you don’t like this, but much like someone thats warlike about mistaken grammar, I’m a bit at a loss for how the original action is that problematic compared to the intolerant response. Its minor spam that gets downranked my most options for reading, presuming you’re not desperate on reading every single comment but that’s a bit inconsistent with the “taking away my time” slight you appear to be offended by
