Right? I’m a professor in part because sure it means I get paid to tell people cool facts about my special interests ALL DAY. Science wants more people to know ALL THE SCIENCE. The idea that there’s a conspiracy to hide some inconvenient “truth” that contradicts our “agenda” is hilarious to me.

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I always explain to people that that whole 'scientists are hiding it from you' line is such bs. Have you ever met a scientist? Like you're going to learn about melanated stink bugs whether you want to or not!

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I’m literally a specialist in Neanderthals and the question of “are they the same species as us or not?” dominated a significant part of my early research. I now teach a lot of evolutionary biology courses and spend a lot of time on topics like species concepts and why they matter. So…yeah. :)

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I saw you come plowing into this like the Kool-Aid man and thought there is a scientist who has been waiting for this all week

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And Neanderthal DNA is also underrepresented in the human X chromosome; while we get an X chromosome from both parents, we get two from our mothers. Those two details together strongly suggest that male H. sapiens/female Neanderthal offspring were nonviable, nonfertile, or both. (Cont.)

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