How many neaderthalian traits are in you?

Recent genetic studies, however, have indicated that populations of Neanderthals and early humans interbred as modern humans migrated into Neanderthal territory. Genetic censuses show that approximately one to four percent of the genome of modern people of Eurasian descent is shared with Neanderthals.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:None, I think.

Does the fact that we could breed with neanderthals and produce fertile offspring mean that we were never a different species?

Sir_Psycho_Sexy91 wrote:#11
#12 ~ the freckles part

Força Iberos (Iberians).

1. Occipital bun : a protuberance of the occipital bone (back of the head) that looks like a hair knot. You have it if you can feel a rounded bone just above the back of your neck (same height as the ears).

2. Low, flat, elongated skull : What matters here is especially the "elongated skull", as opposed to the back of the skull being almost vertical, like East Asian people. I think

3. Retromolar space posterior to the third molar : i.e. an empty space behind the "wisdom teeth".

4. Supraorbital torus : protruding eyebrow bone (including big deep eye cavity between the eye and eyebrow).

5. Bigger, rounder eyes than average. (Not sure what average is)

6. Broad, projecting nose : angle of the nose bone going more upward than average (not falling straight like a "Greek nose").

7. Bony projections on the sides of the nasal opening : i.e. nose bone making a "triangle" between the nose and cheeks/orbits.


8. Little or no protruding chin

9. Larger mental foramen in mandible for facial blood supply : this means that the side jaw and cheek are bigger or better supplied in blood than average. This increased blood supply could result in the cheeks being red (like blushing) when doing physical exercise or when the weather is cold.

10. Short, bowed shoulder blades : i.e. shoulder bones curving toward the front more than average. (I think so, can't be certain)


11. Large round finger tips : typically "flat" and wide finger tips, especially the thumb (e.g. if your thumb is more than 1.5 cm wide).

12. Rufosity : i.e. having red hair, or brown hair with red pigments, or natural freckles.

- Fair skin, hair and eyes : Neanderthals are believed to have had blue or green eyes, as well as fair skin and light hair. Having spent 5x longer in northern latitudes than Homo Sapiens, it is only natural that Neanderthals should have developed these adaptive traits first, and that the first modern humans that arrived in Europe inherited the whole package through interbreeding.

Other details on the cranum shape or peculiarities are too difficult to examine by oneself for laymen, so we will limit our observations to the 12 above characteristics.

Senor Penguin wrote:I've got:
1: I think ... It's pretty tiny though and the back of my head is pretty flat.
4: A tiny bit too but it's not that noticable. More noticable when touching.
5: Perhaps! I think they're a bit larger than what most people seem to have.
12: I've got brown hair but in the summer (and in certain light) there's definitely red pigment going on. When I was little I had more prominent freckles but now they're pretty non-existant. These "ginger" genes definitely come from my grandmom who has got light red/brown hair and freckles.

Btw Babun you left out this part of the traits:

- Fair skin, hair and eyes : Neanderthals are believed to have had blue or green eyes, as well as fair skin and light hair. Having spent 5x longer in northern latitudes than Homo Sapiens, it is only natural that Neanderthals should have developed these adaptive traits first, and that the first modern humans that arrived in Europe inherited the whole package through interbreeding.

Other details on the cranum shape or peculiarities are too difficult to examine by oneself for laymen, so we will limit our observations to the 12 above characteristics.

http://www.eupedia.com/forum/showthread.php?24164-How-much-of-a-Neanderthal-are-you

Which I don't have ... I've got brown eyes. I do have somewhat fair skin though.