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Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, 2011 @08:21AM from the check-out-greg-bear's-darwin's-radio dept.

NotSanguine writes "Sexual relations between ancient humans and their evolutionary cousins were critical for our modern immune systems, researchers report (paper itself is subscription only) in the journal Science. Mating with Neanderthals and another ancient group called Denisovans introduced genes that help us cope with viruses to this day, they conclude."

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Re:The good old days of evolution... by 0123456 · 2011-08-27 08:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Adolf, is that you?
Hitler was only doing what the 'intelligentsia' on the left had been recommending for decades beforehand. Many of them were in favor of murdering those who had 'crap DNA'.