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Iasi et al. 2024. Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans. Science 386(6827)

“… identified Neanderthal ancestry in genomic data … found that gene flow likely happened over a period of about 6000 years, and that positive and negative selection acted within about 100 generations … didn’t find evidence for a second pulse of introgression into East Eurasians ...”

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

The woods around my home in Arctic Norway were few and far between, mostly small birches barely taller than your average adult. Here in Åland, I met with real woods: tall bone-white birches, spruce, thick pines, bushy walnut groves. This vibrant life was everywhere, and all the while I was searching for graves.

wildhunt.org/2024/12/bright-fo

The Wild Hunt · Bright Forest LongingBy Lyonel Perabo
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