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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.

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

To uncover these surprising sexual preferences, researchers examined the sex chromosomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals. In females, these consist of a pair of X chromosomes, while males ...

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