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>While about 2% of the genome of all people descended from those living outside Africa is derived from Neanderthals, there is very little evidence that this process went the other way.

>A new paper, published in the journal PaleoAnthropology, raises the prospect that interbreeding with our ancestors would have reduced the number of Neanderthals breeding with each other, leading to their eventual extinction.

>Though only 32 Neanderthal genomes have been sequenced to date, leaving it possible that the lack of Homo sapiens DNA in their genome is actually a quirk of sampling, the authors hope advances in DNA sequencing technology will be able to resolve this hypothesis by making more genomes available.

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>Professor Chris Stringer, the Museum's Research Leader in Human Evolution, authored the new paper alongside colleague Dr Lucile Crété.

>Chris says, 'Our knowledge of the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals has got more complex in the last few years, but it's still rare to see scientific discussion of how the interbreeding between the groups actually happened.'

>'We propose that this behaviour could have led to the Neanderthals' extinction if they were regularly breeding with Homo sapiens, which could have eroded their population until they disappeared.'

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>Neanderthals and Homo sapiens diverged from each other around 600,000 years ago and evolved in very different areas of the world.

>From genetic data, it looks like the two species first encountered each other when Homo sapiens began making occasional forays out of Africa about 250,000 years ago.

>However, the Neanderthal genes we have in us today are not the result of these early sporadic interactions Homo sapiens had when they first left Africa. Instead, they come from the much larger migrations that modern humans undertook around 60,000 years ago.

PaleoAnthropology, 27 October 2022, DOI 10.48738/2022.iss2.130

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Well stained glass doesnt and didnt require regular cleaning, really.

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Heh. Well put. :p

You could think of it as someone with a New York yiddish dialect, too. Imagine it in Dr. Zoidberg's voice, with the last word being intonated almost as a question.

In German, we always for the verb at the end of the sentence are waiting.

What the hell is with that headline?

With books that are history like such as House of the Dragon coming out, a common comment I see is that these fiction books are often inspired by historical events. I haven't read any historical books beyond the dry history text books of high school and community college. Are there any books that mimic that "fantasy" type writing style that I know and love, but on true events? I'm trying to be interested in non-fiction, or non-fiction fiction (if that's a thing?).

I see the recommendeds, but I'm not sure if what I'm seeking is truly in there, or if I'm asking for far too much :)

I've been hearing from the Republicans that the Democrats reject the results of every election that they do not win, and have plans and schemes in place to seize power by force.

I hear the same thing about the Republicans from the Democrats.

These partisan hack accusations have been going on for decades now.

Go spend some time on partisan blogs for both factions and you'll soon discover that they are each making much the same accusations against the other.

The choice between the Republicans and the Democrats is the same as the choice between the Gambinos and the Lucchese.

The ability to kill does not make a society advanced.

The Aztecs where an an advanced society, but their areas of advancement were not all military.

But apparently the people on Reddit feel that that only thing that defines civilization is the ability to kill.

By that definition, Rome was less civilized than the Germanic tribes that overthrew them.

Yeah but that doesn't mean anything if your civilisation is gone

This ( that the promise was false ) was inevitable. The fall of the Ottoman Empire was simply too great of a power vacuum . I'd also posit that since Saudi Arabia contains the two most holy places in Islam, and that there is a requirement to take a Haj in Islam, it's all but contradictory, at the very least extremely difficult.

Fromkin's "A Peace to End All Peace" ( ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805088090 ) has a remarkable capacity to provide context and is still written as a middlebrow/popular/non-specialist work. Remarkable book.

Around the Black Sea had many Greek colonies and city states. This is pretty expected.

When young students learn about modern corporate malfeasance, a historian can only chuckle; they don't have anything on the old corporations like the EIC or VOC.

An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please

Truth. I'm pointing out which one I perceive to be (by far) the greatest current threat. I perceive that because their plan could make it impossible to rebalance the system, and remove all possible checks on their power.

We've been lucky, historically, as bad as things have gotten. At least we've had politicians willing to concede defeat and step back to try again. There is honor in honoring that system. Now it's not even that gerrymandering is out of control, but a plan to forcibly ignore results and remove all possibly points of opposition to coup.

1926 edition! Very nice.

And who brought the diseases? And who weaponised the diseases once they realised that the natives have no kind of immunity against it?

It was a with multiple extermination methods.