Neandertals inside and outside humanity
The historian of science Lydia Pyne has published a couple of recent articles that detail interesting aspects of the history human evolution. The first is ab...
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Naming your fictional species
How very strange. I was doing a routine Google lookup for “Taung” tonight, and I discovered that the top hit has nothing to do with the Taung fossil specimen...
A short fiction about Neandertal introgression
If you have a subscription to Nature, you can get a short story from last week’s issue, which explores the reaction of a couple of genetics-types to finding ...