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Interesting read.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

That was my first assumption on reading the title, but the article mentions two other things:

  • The male-gene bias apparently persisted for subsequent generations after the initial human/Neanderthal pairing: male children of mixed ancestry had more offspring than their female siblings

  • In Neanderthal communities, the bias was reversed (i.e., more human DNA was retained in the X-chromosome female line.)