Your sneezing and itchy eyes during the allergic season are the fault of genes you received from your Neanderthal ancestors.
More and more evidences are suggesting Neanderthal were somewhat more sophisticated that the previously imagined brutes.
In fact they sometime produced offspring by mating with other homo sapiens neighbor.
Neanderthals lived in Europe and Western Asia for about 200,000 years before modern humans came to the area.
Neanderthal, when bred with humans retained the genes that allowed that adaption and passed along to subsequent generation, helping them to survive in the world.
The researchers say that it is in the genes than just the immunity factor.
According to them, it could be neanderthal influences in hair and skin as well and a lot more research is being done to identify more traits that have been passed to us by early humans.
