Randy Eurasians Surprise Scientists With Ancient Sex Romp
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A sexually prolific group of Northern Eurasians roamed the ancient world, mating with everyone from the ancestors of Native Americans to Eastern Europeans, say Harvard researchers who suggest the findings should expand existing views of how modern man came to be.
The research, released by the journal Nature, upends existing scientific wisdom that modern Europeans are the result of hunter-gatherers and indigenous farmers who bred exclusively among themselves, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Germany’s University of Tubingen.