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Neanderthal men chose Homo sapiens women: Genetics reveals the sex life of our ancestors (english.elpais.com)

submitted 4 months ago by misk@piefed.social to c/anthropology@mander.xyz

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Source paper: Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased (closed access 😭)

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[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Isn’t there an inherent bias in that if the children stayed with the mothers, and since modern humans ended up surviving, while Neanderthals ultimately died out, that the surviving progeny that became our ancestors would have been the mix of modern human women with Neanderthal men. But, I guess this makes the assumption that women stayed with their group and didn’t leave, or get captured by other groups.