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‘A History of Contact’: Geneticists Rewrite the Story of Neanderthals and Other Early Humans

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Detection of modern human-to-Neanderthal gene flow (H→N) and its consequences. Modern human-to-Neanderthal admixture causes a local increase in heterozygosity in the Neanderthal genome, a feature that enabled approaches to quantify and detect introgressed sequences. We used modern human-introgressed sequences in the Neanderthal genome to refine estimates of Neanderthal ancestry in contemporary humans by decomposing IBDmix-detected … Read more

Brookfield sets up UK insurer to join corporate pensions success story

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Stay up to date with free updates Simply register for the Pension sector myFT Digest — straight to your inbox. Brookfield has filed to set up an insurance business in the United Kingdom, a move that will allow one of the world’s largest private equity groups to benefit from a wave of British companies shedding … Read more

GTA 5’s ‘Kick Ass’ Story DLC Scrapped Because GTA Online ‘Was Such a Cash Cow,’ Claims Former Rockstar Dev – IGN

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A former Rockstar developer has said that the company canceled a standalone Grand Theft Auto 5 story DLC because GTA Online proved to be a “cash cow” shortly after launch. Joe Robino, who worked as a senior cameraman and virtual cinematographer at Rockstar’s New York office from 2010 to 2016, explained on the YouTube channel … Read more

‘Zelda’ Master Sword Earns Man 4 Months in Prison, But There’s More to the Story

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Do not carry a knife in public in the UK, especially if you have a long criminal record. Source: Nintendo It sounds a little bizarre, perhaps like a grotesque police overreach or a “tough on crime” taken too far, if you just read the headlines. A man in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, was arrested for carrying … Read more

Genetic twist in the story of the last woolly mammoths

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About 10,000 years ago, a small population of woolly mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast. This isolation was the result of rising sea levels, a phenomenon we are all too familiar with today. Within just two generations, the woolly mammoth population on Wrangel Island grew from just eight individuals to a … Read more

USD/JPY Update: Why Markets Don’t Seem to Buy the MoF Story

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USD/JPY Update: Why Markets Don’t Appear to be Buying the MoF Story

USD/JPY, Yen analysis FX intervention rhetoric shifts up a gear USD/JPY completely ignores the decline in US-Japan bond spreads to trade higher The markets appear to be calling the Japanese officials’ bluff as every level of intervention has been surpassed since the 2022 interventions The analysis in this article uses chart patterns and key support … Read more

Hands On: ‘The Plucky Squire’ – Wit and charm enough to make Nintendo jealous

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Image: Nintendo Life When we walked into the Devolver booth in front of The Plucky Squire during the Summer Game Fest Play Days, we felt like we were going back to our childhood. There was a huge, colorful mural on the wall depicting the upcoming All Possible Future adventure game ahead. To our left was … Read more

Black Myth: Wukong Preview – A classic story retold – Game Informer

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Black Myth: Wukong is an action role-playing game that closely follows the events of Wu Cheng’en’s seminal novel Travel west. The work, based on Chinese mythology and Buddhist folklore, follows a monk who encounters a spirit named Sun Wukong, also known as Monkey King, during his search for sacred religious texts. Although the central story … Read more