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Traces of human DNA found in a Neanderthal genome suggest that we started mixing with our now-extinct relatives 100,000 years ago.  Previously it had been thought that the two species first encountered each other when modern humans left Africa, about 60,000 years ago. The research is published in the journal Nature.  Dr Sergi Castellano, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Germany, said: "It is significant for understanding the history of modern humans and Neanderthals."The ancient remains of a female Neanderthal, found in a remote cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, are the source of these revelations about the sex lives of our ancestors. A genetic analysis reveals that portions of human DNA lie within her genome, revealing an interspecies mingling that took place 100,000 years ago.Earlier research suggested that humans started interbreeding with our heavy-browed, stocky relatives when they migrated out of Africa and began to spread...

Michael Ford, who worked in the American embassy in London, pleaded guilty to nine charges of cyber-stalking, seven of computer hacking to extort and one of wire fraud.  He preyed on sorority members at US universities and aspiring models.  Ford used the details he learned after hacking the women to find new victims.The 36-year-old, from Atlanta, in the American state of Georgia, posed as technical support staff from a well-known email company and sent phishing messages to thousands of potential victims.  Pretending to be a member of the non-existent account-deletion team, he told them their accounts would be closed unless they sent him their passwords.  He then accessed their email and social media accounts in search of explicit photos and other personal information, such as home and work addresses, employment information and details about family members.  He used that information to demand additional sexually explicit material, such as videos of the wom...

Imparting childcare improves for more content couples to sexual experiences, US research recommends. In an investigation of 487 families, folks who split childcare obligations equitably reported more prominent fulfillment, both sexually and inwardly.  In any case, in couples where the lady did the greater part of the childcare, both men and ladies reported being less substance. The analysts said men doing a more noteworthy offer of childcare did not have the same effect.  The conclusions have been drawn from a study called the 2006 Marital and Relationship Study, which was a review into marriage and connections among hetero couples. The data, being presented at a meeting of the American  Sociological Association, shows that couples where the women performed more than 60% of childcare - specifically in terms of rule-making, praising and playing - fared the worst on scores of relationship satisfaction and conflict, as well as being less happy about the ...