Neanderthals may have had a lower threshold for pain: People who inherited a special ion channel from Neanderthals experience more pain
As several Neanderthal genomes of high quality are now available researchers can identify genetic changes that were present in many or all Neanderthals, investigate their physiological effects and look into their consequences when they occur in people today. Looking into one gene that carries such changes, Hugo Zeberg, Svante Pä