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🔴 **Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups**

“_We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities._”

Olalde, I. et al. (2025) 'Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644.

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23 years of predation data from Yellowstone Park (U.S.A.) shows that when large prey (e.g., elk) become scarce, cougars switch to smaller prey (e.g., deer) to reduce kleptoparasitism by wolves and bears.

Summary: phys.org/news/2025-04-prey-siz

Original paper: nature.com/articles/s42003-025

("Kleptoparasitism" seems like a good word to describe the actions of billionaire oligarchs.)

Phys.org · Prey size plays surprising role in competition among wolves, bears and cougarsBy University of Minnesota