Allergies May Have Been Bequeathed by Neandertals
Jan 07, 2016•4 min
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Episode description
Many non-African humans today have genes—which apparently made it into us via Neandertals—that ramp up resistance to pathogens, but bring on allergies, too. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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