In fact, Texas just posted a record low in its rate of positive Covid-19 tests, at less than 5.3%, and hospitalizations are at the lowest level since last October. Deaths are at the lowest level in four months. Since March 2, the day Abbott announced that state Covid-19 restrictions would …
Read More »How well you fared with Covid-19 might be down to a Neanderthal gene lottery, studies claim
Svante Paabo and Hugo Zeberg of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been looking to the genes inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors – and the pair’s studies suggest that our modern-day responses to Covid-19 are part of a genetic lottery played out over 40,000 years. …
Read More »Scientists have described how genes are of Neanderthal influence in modern humans
The last Neanderthals died out tens of thousands of years agoHowever, the consequences of interbreeding are still being felt today, at least this is evidenced by recent genetic research. While previous studies have indicated that approximately 2 percent of the modern human genome inherited from Neanderthal, the new shows more …
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