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Svante Paabo / Neanderthals and COVID

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Svante Paabo / Neanderthals and COVID

Some of our relatives can put us at greater risk of Covid-19 (and we’re not talking about the anti-maskers). Turns out pieces of Neanderthal DNA can increase our chances of getting sick with coronavirus. 

Click above to hear part 1 of Neanderthal in the Family, featuring Svante Pääbo, Evolutionary geneticist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Neanderthal in the Family:
Part 1: Svante Paabo / Neanderthals and COVID
Part 2: Doyle Stevick and Beverly Brown / Sticking up for Neanderthals
Part 3: Rebecca Wragg Sykes / Neanderthal Life
Part 4: Alysson Muotri / Neanderthal Brains

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