Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.
When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...
Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...
A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.
If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...
Genealogy study claims first conclusive case of sex ‘distortion’ in humans — but not all researchers are convinced.
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