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headline: 'scientists conclude' Article 'A SUDDEN and dramatic drop in the number of human males living in Europe, Africa, and Asia 7,000 years ago is evidence
by olivermarks 8y ago
headline: 'scientists conclude'
Article
'A SUDDEN and dramatic drop in the number of human males living in Europe, Africa, and Asia 7,000 years ago is evidence of brutal warfare spanning multiple generations, a new study has suggested.'
Theory is fact in click bait tabloid headlines...
- dang 8y agoWe've added the qualifying ": study" bit above. Still, I think this is sort of a nitpick.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoNo, it's more than a nitpick, and I think the correction is the wrong one. The study says that there was a Y-chromosome bottleneck, consistent with a very small number of males compared to the number of females. The "was the result of brutal warfare" part is speculation, not the result of the study.
- posterboy 8y agoIt is probably a reference to the conclusion part of the paper, simply because it's an obvious hypothesis. It's not necessary that men died like flies, they just didn't procreate, but that's not mutually exclusive. Eitherway, it would be the result of competition with a social aspect.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoSure, it's an obvious hypothesis. I just have a problem with reporting it like it's proven.
- posterboy 8y ago> a new study has suggested a new study has suggested, terminal qualifiers are often ignored