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How Greg Abbott Bused 100,000 Migrants Directly Into Trump’s Electoral Column

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A White House Briefing Changed How Doctors Prescribed Drugs Overnight

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Falling Birth Rates in Wealthy Nations May Boost Living Standards

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More Years of U.S. Football Linked to Worse Cognitive, Psychiatric Outcomes in Later Life

While modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA scattered across our genomes, our X chromosomes remain surprisingly devoid of these ancient sequences. This infographic, based on a groundbreaking study by Platt et al. in Science, illustrates the surprising reason why: "mate preference," not natural selection. The research reveals a striking inheritance mismatch, suggesting a strong preference for specific mating pairs—predominantly Neanderthal males with human females—that shaped the unique genetic landscape of both species.

Neanderthal Men and Human Women Drove Most Interbreeding Between the Two Species

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Victim-Named Laws Win More Votes Whether the Policy Works or Not

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Living Near A Nuclear Plant Raises Cancer Death Risk, US Study Finds

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Evolution Is Not Just About Survival of the Fittest Individual

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Eyes Affect Our Perception of a Humanoid Robot’s Mind

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The Kindness Frequency Can Nudge People to Behave Less Selfishly

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The Next War Will Be Won by Whoever Has the Most Expendable Robots

Chatbots change a review's sentiment when summarizing it.

Chatbots Are Rewriting What You Think About the Products You Buy

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The Generosity Paradox: Why We Help More When We Have Less

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When AI Dreams of Neanderthals, It’s Still Stuck in the 1960s

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