Neanderthal Genes Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Morning People
Neanderthals were genetically predisposed to be early birds, and they may have passed on those genes to some humans living today, new research found.
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Neanderthals were genetically predisposed to be early birds, and they may have passed on those genes to some humans living today, new research found.
Thousands of genomes spanning 40,000 years reveal how Neanderthals have lived on through Homo sapiens.
© Getty Images Researchers have discovered a possible genetic link between Neanderthal DNA and a lower risk of developing a severe case of the coronavirus. A new study, conducted by Hugo Zeberg and Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, followed up on recent research that suggested Neanderthal DNA was actually linked to higher risk of severe illness. They found that a certain haplogroup, a population that shares common DNA, was roughly 22 percent less likely to develop a severe case of COVID-19. The common DNA is believed to have been inherite...