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Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch


When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in women who were hybrids, and this might have played a part in Neanderthals’ demise

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