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ImOnlyHereCauseGME t1_it2a8zf wrote

I have a stack of books to read but I can’t help myself getting more. Does anyone have a good book recommendation for the war of the Triple Alliance where Paraguay lost most of its male population by fighting 3 of its neighbors at once? I’d love to know the thought process of the clearly deranged leader of Paraguay as well as obviously how the war itself played out

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RedDordit t1_it1tgqc wrote

This is not confusing at all (the way you put it, I mean). But it’s very complicated, and we have to consider these names were not regular like they might be in today’s Brazil: only nobles had these many names since it was, in fact, pompous. Regular people only had a praenomen, as they didn’t belong to a gens.

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marketrent OP t1_it1ppw6 wrote

No hominin is an island.

Excerpt:

>The study shows that the mitochondrial genome passed from mother to child was much more varied than that of the Y chromosome passed on by fathers. This confirms that in Neanderthal societies women left their families to go and live with other groups and bear children, while men stayed put in the same clan. It is a common practice in many current hunter-gatherer societies that prevents diseases and sterility associated with inbreeding.

>Despite this strategy, the Neanderthal family of Chagyrskaya already seemed doomed to disappear in a few generations. Researchers have studied the genetic variability among all individuals and the level of identical sequences is as high as among current mountain gorillas, one of the most endangered species on the planet.

>The results also indicate that these Neanderthals were from the dominant Western European lineage and had no trace of interbreeding with their Asian Denisovan neighbors, despite living just 100 kilometers away. These data support that isolation and inbreeding contributed to the extinction of these hominins.

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