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Neanderthal Genes May Result in a Lower Threshold for Pain – Interesting Engineering
Our ancestors may have experienced a lot more pain than we do today.
Different people handle pain differently. Some go screaming after the most minor paper cut while others can even handle a stabbing. Now, scientists may have found an answer to why people have such different thresholds of pain after studying our ancestors.Pain is mediated through specialized nerve cells that exhibit an ion channel that is key to triggering the electrical impulse that signals pain to the brain. According to the new study, individuals who inherit the Neanderthal variant of this ion…
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