Neandertal Gene Variant Boosts Muscle Mass in Humans
Human populations living today share a specific genetic legacy from ancient interbreeding events, according to a study led by researchers Hugo Zeberg of Karolinska Institutet and Philipp Kanis of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Modern humans inherited a variant of the growth hormone receptor through interbreeding with Neandertals around 47,000 years ago, resulting … Read more