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Angela/Ygorcs/Jovialis and other Mods: This is a really interesting study that just came out, lots of the heavy hitters and players involved. It relates to COVID-19 and Neanderthals! Very interesting. I will defer to you or the other advisors on where this goes in a thread. Do we have any Neanderthal experts here that can chime in? So were the Neanderthals immune from this and over time as Neanderthal DNA is selected out, moderns get more susceptible to COVID-19. Does Higher Neanderthal DNA make one less likely or more likely to die from it? Some preliminary evidence that I got from the Paper is in a comparison of Spaniards and Italians, the ones with higher Neanderthal Chromosome 3 seem to have higher risk and this Chromosome was in the Neanderthal from Croatia dated 50K years ago. I am going to look for more on this but it is really fascinating. I had earlier linked this article in the COVID-19 thread but I think it deserves its own thread. IF you think it is better served to have it in a COVID-19 thread, then please combine it into that type thread as you see fit. I haven't found the actual study or if it is available to be read.
https://www.deccanherald.com/scienc...inherited-from-neanderthals-study-857223.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/coronavirus-neanderthals.html
https://www.deccanherald.com/scienc...inherited-from-neanderthals-study-857223.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/coronavirus-neanderthals.html