The early bird catches the worm, just like their ancestors, the Neanderthals, did.
You read that right: new research suggests that people who go to bed early and wake up early are likely to share the same DNA as the extinct species of archaic humans.
The University of California in San Francisco came out with a study published on Thursday (December 14) in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution that compared genes related to early rising from people alive today and DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans to spot the pattern.
