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The Holy Grail Of Neanderthal Language Is Turning Out To Be An 800-Pound Gorilla
Inverse· 2 days agoThe Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. ...
Neanderthal DNA Sequences Found In Less Than 1 Percent Of People Linked To Autism
IFLScience· 5 days agoRare gene variants passed down from our Neanderthal relatives have been linked to the development of autism in a new study. Scientists at Clemson University and Loyola University ...
Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome – except the Y chromosome. What...
The Conversation· 3 days agoGenetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between modern humans and these long-gone relatives – most recently that a rush of interbreeding between our species occurred in a relatively ...
Human genome has Neanderthal genes but lacks its Y chromosome
Interesting Engineering· 2 days agoBecause of that, the absence of this Neanderthal chromosome might provide a clue of some kind. The Y plays an important role in biological sex and male fertility, according ...
‘No hugging, no learning’: How Seinfeld made the world a nastier, funnier place
Daily Telegraph· 2 days ago, Roseanne, The Golden Girls and a long-forgotten Cosby Show spin-off called A Different World. In...
Capturing the Perfect Moment - Flathead Beacon
Flathead Beacon· 57 minutes agoWhen my daughters learned to fly fish, they taught me an important lesson: no fish is truly caught until it’s posted on social media. You might scoff at this notion as another sign the apocalypse ...
When did humans start social knowledge accumulation?
Ars Technica· 13 hours agoA key aspect of humans' evolutionary success is the fact that we don't have to learn how to do things from scratch. This makes learning how to do things...
The definitive ranking of all 28 Pixar movies (including 'Inside Out 2')
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days ago'The Good Dinosaur' (2015) "The Good Dinosaur" gets an unfortunate rap. It's not top-tier Pixar by...
Gateway - Jalopnik
Jalopnik· 17 hours agoIndiana has won a Stellantis battery plant, Toyota has slashed global production, and Avtovaz. Of all the major auto manufacturers, Stellantis has been the most neanderthal
How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.
New York Times· 1 day agoIn “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking. Dennis Duncan is the author of “Index, A History...