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Incredibly important and subtle point about gender and evolutionary biology

This is a major eye-opener.

The punchline: looks like about 2/3rd of the ancestors of the current human race were female, because a lot of men died without ever reproducing.

Impacts for our understanding of our own genetic heritage? Huge.

This was written by Vinay Gupta. Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at 5:42 pm. Filed under Science. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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