East Asian human gene that allows adult humans to digest sugars in milk likely came from Neanderthals

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Mar 12, 2025, 3:03 pm781 ptsInterestingTop
A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, reports that unique lactase genes carried by about 25% of East Asian people may have been inherited from Neanderthals.

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