Neandertal Family (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Neandertal Family

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Neandertals and modern man have mixed and exchanged genes several times over the millennia. Researchers have discovered that people who have inherited a gene variant for an ion channel from Neandertals have a lower pain threshold.

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© Science Photo Library / Daynes, Elisabeth

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