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Were Neanderthals Infected with Disease Carried from Africa?

By Fred Lewsey | University of Cambridge on Apr 12, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Were Neanderthals Infected with Disease Carried from Africa?

Review of latest genetic evidence suggests infectious diseases are tens of thousands of years older than previously thought, and that they could jump between species of ‘hominin’. Researchers says that humans migrating out of Africa would have been ‘reservoirs of tropical disease’ – disease that may have sped up Neanderthal extinction. A new study suggests […]

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