Sex with Neanderthals was good for us
Earlier this year we found that those of us who came out of Africa have 1-4% of our genes in common with Neanderthals. Now we are told that sex with Neanderthals was uncommonly good for us. Peter Parham of Stanford [...]
Neanderthals r us
Well, not all of us, just the non-African sector of the species. It seems that humans of European and Asian descent have between 1 and 4 per cent of our genes from Homo neanderthalensis. If we are of African descent [...]
Claude Levi-Strauss
The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, has died, aged 100. Levi-Strauss was one of the towering intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. At Crikey, Guy Rundle provides an appreciation, and contextualises Levi-Strauss’ thought and influence for our times.
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