Dec 8, 2020
SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks
with
evolutionary geneticist Hugo
Zeberg about his
surprising discovery of a connection between Neanderthal DNA and a
greater risk for severe COVID-19. Zeberg is also a researcher at
the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
Read
the paper in Nature Zeberg co-authored announcing the discovery:
“The Major Genetic Risk Factor for Severe
COVID-19 Is Inherited From Neanderthals.”