Dr Emily Casanova, an assistant professor of neuroscience in psychology at Loyola University, New Orleans and F Alex Feltus, professor of genetics and biochemistry at Clemson University, South Carolina, write in Scientific American about how DNA inherited from Neanderthals may influence modern human cognition.
Neanderthal DNA has wide-reaching effects on our species
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
