Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by archaeologists discovering an enormous gladiatorial compound buried near the banks of the Danube outside Vienna. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
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 [...]
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