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Neanderthals Had a Lower Threshold for Pain – And You May Have Inherited It – SciTechDaily
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 many or all Neanderthals, investigate their physi…
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…
