Psudo science, sure.pic.twitter.com/xamYN9yN1c
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Note that that article is desperately trying to avoid noticing the true cause >"Like was there some sort of weird virus that only affected males across the whole globe, 8,000 years ago?" Conquest. Conquest was the "weird virus".
Sounds to me like it is better to be the Chad Steppe Charioteer rather than the Virgin Agriculturalist.
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