Tim Flannery is in the news again as a climate voice and author shaping policy debates. Aussie mammalogist, palaeontologist, and prominent environmentalist.
New genetic research published in Science reveals prehistoric mating favored male Neanderthals and female modern humans. This conclusion is drawn from patterns of Neanderthal DNA in modern human genomes, particularly the scarcity of Neanderthal DNA on the human X chromosome. The findings shed light on ancient human-Neanderthal interactions dating back roughly 250,000 years.