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Neanderthals Had a Lower Threshold for Pain – And You May Have Inherited It – techtoday19
Neanderthals 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 Neanderthals have a lower pain threshold. Credit: © Science Photo Li…
Neanderthals 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 Neanderthals have a lower pain threshold. Credit: © Science Photo Library / Daynes, Elisabeth
People who inherited a special ion channel from Neanderthals experience more pain.
As several Neanderthal genomes of high quality are now available researchers can identify genetic changes that were present in man…
