The ScienceDaily report on the Reich-Olalde collaboration captures the headline finding—late Neolithic Belgian genomes showing over 50% local hunter-gatherer ancestry in wetland zones—but underplays the decisive mechanism: overwhelmingly female-mediated admixture. Y-chromosome data remain almost entirely Mesolithic, while mitochondrial lineages are three-quarters Anatolian-derived, indicating that incoming farming women integrated into hunter-gatherer communities rather than the reverse. This pattern repeats across the Lower Rhine-Meuse wetlands and Swifterbant sites, where earlier samples approach 100% hunter-gatherer ancestry yet still carry farmer mtDNA. Mainstream three-wave models (hunter-gatherer, Anatolian farmer, steppe) treat these as male-driven expansions; the new data instead reveal persistent matrilocal residence and female exogamy that allowed farming knowledge and genes to percolate northward without displacing local male lines. The 90% Neolithic replacement in Britain cited in the source is therefore likely the downstream consequence of similar female-driven networks rather than wholesale Corded Ware invasion. Limitations include modest sample sizes (dozens rather than hundreds of individuals) and reliance on uniparental markers that cannot yet quantify exact admixture timing; the work is peer-reviewed rather than preprint. Cross-referencing with Olalde et al. (Nature 2018) on Bell Beaker Britain and Lipson et al. (Nature 2017) on Central European farmer-hunter admixture confirms the same sex bias operated at continental scale, suggesting long-term social institutions—female mobility coupled with male territoriality—that mainstream archaeology still frames as patrilineal conquest narratives.