We may have got early risers Genetic variants from the Neanderthals

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Neanderthal girl. Image courtesy of Christopher P.E. Zollikofer, Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich

Joel Kontinen 

Scientists say that Europeans and Asians inherited 1 – 2 per cent of their genome from Neanderthals.

Or, if you said thatt "freckles, red hair and even narcolepsy are traits that a Neaderthal left in you. They found, “that Icelanders had inherited 3.3% of their archaic DNA from Denisovans and 12.2% from unknown sources. (84.5% came from close relatives of the reference Neanderthals.)”.

Neanderthals. and Denisovans are our cousins, but they lived in the not distant past, just after Noah’s Flood

New Scientist says that Genetic variants that some people have inherited from their Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestors may increase the odds that they are morning rather than evening people.

Source:

 Wong, Carissa. 2023,  Early risers may have inherited faster body clocks from Neanderthals,  New Scientist 15 February.