"Neanderthal gene turns modern humans into muscle heads" -- @NewsfromScience sounding like the New York Post...
Scientists have identified a gene variant associated with human growth hormone that likely made Neanderthals stockier and burlier than modern humans.View quoted post on X
What’s more, some people today have inherited that variant from a long-ago mixing between the two groups—and they tend to carry more lean muscle mass than those with the standard version of the gene.
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