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New study says Neanderthals dug stone-age human chicks.
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OK Wilson, get a load of this: Neanderthal guys really dug Homo sapien babes. That's the word from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, published in the prestigious journal Science . For real. Here's a little background. In case you didn't know, Homo sapiens interbred with Homo neanderthalensis in Eurasia for tens of thousands of years.
And one of human's 23 pairs of chromosomes determines a person’s sex—females have two XX chromosomes; males have an X and a Y. Scientists at Penn measured Homo sapien DNA in the X chromosomes of male Neanderthal bones.
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