Genetic scientist claims that a sexual encounter between a Neanderthal and a human caused the deaths of up to a million people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At Cheltenham Science Festival this week, experts have explained how a genetic variation passed on by a Neanderthal during one sexual encounter has affected Covid death rates.
The research team from Oxford University and the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre Abu Dhabi (ICLDC) think that these genetic traces reflect the movement of people in the Middle East after major cultural transitions, such as the invention of ag