Your Neanderthal DNA may help you fight disease, and give you allergies
Friday, January 8, 2016 - 06:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
If you sneeze when flowers bloom in the spring and tear up in the presence of a cat, your Neanderthal DNA may be to blame. About 2% of the DNA in most people alive today came from trysts between ancient humans and their Neanderthal neighbors tens of thousands of years ago, recent studies have shown....