Do you wince as you walk, or wake up with aches and pains? It could be down to your genes -- your Neanderthal genes, that is.
Many of us are part Neanderthal, with our genes carrying traces of past encounters between our early ancestors and the Stone Age hominins that populated Europe until around 40,000 years ago.
Now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet think we can also attribute our pain thresholds to our Neanderthal DNA.
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