20 physical traits you may have inherited from a Neanderthal

[Black Wolf]

Looks pretty interesting. I think sloping foreheads should also be added to this list.

http://www.abroadintheyard.com/20-physical-traits-inherited-from-neanderthal/

[Highlands]

This one is interesting :P

13. Large eyes

The large eye sockets in Neanderthal skulls indicate that they had large eyeballs to fill them. Antroplogists have suggested that they required larger eyes to enable them to see in the weaker sunlight of the northern latitudes.

Some further suggest that they devoted more brain power to processing visual input than to higher-level processing, and this is partly why modern humans had the evolutionary edge on them.

Ukrainian model Masha Tyelna’s large natural eyes may be a hint of this ancestry, or at least more accurately reflect the proportionate size of Neanderthal eyes.

http://www.abroadintheyard.com/wp-content/uploads/13-Large-eyes-e1419462261912.jpg

[Rudel]

I thought "none, master-race status achieved" until I saw the nicotine and depression points :eek:

[Furnace]

1. Occipital bun - Small one, Yes

2 Elongated skull - Yes

3 Space behind the wisdom teeth. - Nope

4. Supraorbital ridge or brow ridge - Partially, average I guess

5. Broad, projecting nose - Nope

6. Little or no protruding chin - Nope

7. Rosy cheeks - Nope

8. Wide fingers and thumbs - Nope

9. Straight, thick hair - Nope

10. Insulating skin - What does that even mean?

11. Fair skin and freckles - Partially, fair skin yes, freckles no

12. Red hair - Nope, only a few hairs in my beard

13. Large eyes - Nope

14. Immunity against Eurasian pathogens - Yes Most likely

15. Increased risk of Type 2 diabetes - I have no idea

16. Increased risk of Crohn’s disease - I have no idea

17. Increased risk of lupus - I have no idea

18. Increased risk of biliary cirrhosis - I have no idea

19. Difficulty with nicotine addiction - I have no idea

20. Increased risk of long-term depression? - Nope

[Prisoner Of Ice]

I suffer from a bit of depression, even though there is no reason for it. I have some other ones, too.

[SupaThug]

Straight thick hair is one of my most striking traits!

[Gooding]

That's interesting. I do have fair skin, reddish hair, personality issues and I'm apparently 3.3% Neanderthal by genome according to 23andMe ( hey, I made top percentile for once!). The other stuff, meh, Ahdunno.:ranger:


An estimated 3.3% of your DNA is from Neanderthals.

Andrew Gooding (you)
3.3%
99th percentile

Average European user
2.7%
MODERN HUMANS
Higher brow
Narrower shoulders
Slightly taller



NEANDERTHALS
Heavy eyebrow ridge
Long, low, bigger skull
Prominent nose with developed nasal chambers for cold-air protection

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Andrew Gooding (you)


3.3%


99th percentile among European users

[Elsa]

Very interesting!

I remember reading that light eyes were also thought to have come from Neanderthals?

[Trun]

The large eye sockets in Neanderthal skulls indicate that they had large eyeballs to fill them. Antroplogists have suggested that they required larger eyes to enable them to see in the weaker sunlight of the northern latitudes.

Then why people living in extremely cold (Siberian/Mongol peoples) and extremely dark (Northwest Europeans) places have the smallest eyes?

[Styrian Mujo]

I have blue eyes and depression and maybe a few other traits.

[Styrian Mujo]

Then why people living in extremely cold (Siberian/Mongol peoples) and extremely dark (Northwest Europeans) places have the smallest eyes?
I agree. This makes no sense. Humans living in warmer climates usually have the biggest eyes not vice versa.

[Gooding]

Maybe that's why they went extinct.. they kept clubbing themselves over the head.

[Gooding]

Then why people living in extremely cold (Siberian/Mongol peoples) and extremely dark (Northwest Europeans) places have the smallest eyes?
Quite right. My blue eyes are in fairly small eye sockets.

[Graham]

I don't get the big eyed thing in cold climates, when the opposite is what you see today.

[Damião de Góis]

1. Occipital bun - I don't think so

2 Elongated skull - I don't think so either

3 Space behind the wisdom teeth. - No

4. Supraorbital ridge or brow ridge - Same as other people i guess

5. Broad, projecting nose - No

6. Little or no protruding chin - No

7. Rosy cheeks - No

8. Wide fingers and thumbs - No

9. Straight, thick hair - No

10. Insulating skin - I don't know

11. Fair skin and freckles - Fair skin as most europeans, but no freckles

12. Red hair - No

13. Large eyes - No

14. Immunity against Eurasian pathogens - ?

15. Increased risk of Type 2 diabetes - 23andme says no

16. Increased risk of Crohn’s disease - 23andme says no

17. Increased risk of lupus - 23andme says no

18. Increased risk of biliary cirrhosis - 23andme says no

19. Difficulty with nicotine addiction - 23andme says typical odds but i did quit very easily

20. Increased risk of long-term depression? - I don't think so

According to 23andme the average european has 2.7% neanderthal ancestry, i score 2.6%

[Amud]

Then why people living in extremely cold (Siberian/Mongol peoples) and extremely dark (Northwest Europeans) places have the smallest eyes?

We can look at Neanderthal skulls and see that they have larger eye sockets than most modern humans. Unlike the Cro-Magnon skull, the orbits are much taller and rounded, and they are also spaced far apart. It's hard to say if this was a cold adaptation or if there was any good reason for it. Since they lived in the cold, it possible that they had epicanthal folds like modern Mongoloids do, or just large hooded eyelids in general. This would make their eyes appear smaller in the flesh than the eye socket size would suggest. We don't have a good way of determining this for the time being.

[Ivan Kramskoï]

1. Occipital bun - No

2 Elongated skull - No

3 Space behind the wisdom teeth. - No (I don't have wisdom teeth)

4. Supraorbital ridge or brow ridge - Yes (cearly visible in profile view)

5. Broad, projecting nose - No

6. Little or no protruding chin - Yes

7. Rosy cheeks - No

8. Wide fingers and thumbs - No

9. Straight, thick hair - (Thick hair but wavy so) No

10. Insulating skin - What does that even mean?

11. Fair skin and freckles -Light skin but not fair

12. Red hair - Nope, only a few hairs in my beard

13. Large eyes - No

14. Immunity against Eurasian pathogens - Yes Most likely

15. Increased risk of Type 2 diabetes - I have no idea

16. Increased risk of Crohn’s disease - I have no idea

17. Increased risk of lupus - I have no idea

18. Increased risk of biliary cirrhosis - I have no idea

19. Difficulty with nicotine addiction - I have no idea

20. Increased risk of long-term depression? - No

[Amud]

But wouldn't they still appear to have bigger eye fissures?

Yeah, in that case I'd say a wide but slit-like eye shape is likely. If they actually had epicanthic folds, the width of the fissure would appear reduced as well because of the fold of skin covering the part closest to the inner canthus. All we can do is speculate, though. The only thing we have to go by is the shape of the eye sockets on the skull.

[de Burgh II]

1. Occipital bun - No

2 Elongated skull - Since my skull looks similar to the example; yes.

3 Space behind the wisdom teeth. - yes

4. Supraorbital ridge or brow ridge - Average

5. Broad, projecting nose - Broad nose but not projecting

6. Little or no protruding chin - Yes

7. Rosy cheeks - No. I dont seem to have cheekbones since their more angular so they feel non existent.

8. Wide fingers and thumbs - No

9. Straight, thick hair - No

10. Insulating skin - Possibly?

11. Fair skin and freckles - Yes; have freckles appear on unexposed skin during summer.

12. Red hair - Oddly have red chin hairs with a blond mustache.

13. Large eyes - No.

14. Immunity against Eurasian pathogens - Possibly, N/A

15. Increased risk of Type 2 diabetes - N/A

16. Increased risk of Crohn’s disease - N/A

17. Increased risk of lupus - N/A

18. Increased risk of biliary cirrhosis - n/a

19. Difficulty with nicotine addiction - N/A

20. Increased risk of long-term depression - No

[Roy]

The only physical Neanderthal feature in me is occipital bun I guess.


I think that's the case mostly with western europeans and scandinavians. Some Polish people I have seen have quite big eyes.

Majority of Poles have small eyes, big ones are rare.

[Harley]

I want to guess that Insulating skin refers to the outer skin being less pliable and able to retain more heat. The explanation says that while Africans have more skin layers than Eurasians, it is more compact, meaning that it's probably less pliable.

Think of how you cover heat with something more solid. Is a pot of hot water liable to cool down when covered with a plate or with a strainer?

A person with insulating skin will tend to retain more internal body heat and be more resistant to external temp changes.

I know I have insulating skin simply because my body temp is more higher than others and I tend to be exceptionally warm when others are freezing. This was a pain and a great source of discomfort during winter in classrooms because heat would be blaring, everyone is still cold, and I'm sweating like it's the fourth of July.

[Black Wolf]

La Brana had them.

Is he a confirmed neanderthal and we never heard?

La Brana is not a Neanderthal although he probably had a small amount of Neanderthal DNA in him.

[StonyArabia]

I don't believe in the Neanderthal thing but I know I am like half basal Eurasian due to my Arabian maternal side. I never got wisdom teeth either XD.

[Amud]

I don't believe in the Neanderthal thing but I know I am like half basal Eurasian due to my Arabian maternal side. I never got wisdom teeth either XD.


What do you mean? It's not really open for debate at this point.

[Nyx]

Then why people living in extremely cold (Siberian/Mongol peoples) and extremely dark (Northwest Europeans) places have the smallest eyes?

I don't know for sure, but it's possible that western europe during the ice age was still warmed up by the gulf stream and therefore making the winters much milder, like it is today in europe.

Snow reflects sunlight quite a bit and since Siberians lived in a mostly cloudless and snowy environment I could see why they would develop small eye sockets with dark skin.

[Vasconcelos]

1. Occipital bun - Yes, rather big actually

2. Elongated skull - Yes

3. Space behind the wisdom teeth. - Yes

4. Supraorbital ridge or brow ridge - No/very small

5. Broad, projecting nose - No

6. Little or no protruding chin - No

7. Rosy cheeks - Very faint

8. Wide fingers and thumbs - No

9. Straight, thick hair - No

10. Insulating skin - How am I supposed to know anyway

11. Fair skin and freckles - Average euro skin pigment, no freckles

12. Red hair - Had auburn for a while as a kid

13. Large eyes - ish

14. Immunity against Eurasian pathogens - I guess

15. Increased risk of Type 2 diabetes - Yes, mother's family has it

16/17/18. - Don't know

19. Difficulty with nicotine addiction - No, I quit smoking and it was rather easy for me

20. Increased risk of long-term depression? - No




Not very Neanderthalid.

[Black Wolf]

I doubt that many people here actually have much of a space behind their last wisdom tooth. That was a trait pretty much limited to true Neanderthals.

[Vasconcelos]

I doubt that many people here actually have much of a space behind their last wisdom tooth. That was a trait pretty much limited to true Neanderthals.

I have almost an inch between my wisdom teeth what *whatever the thing in the back is called*. Yes, I just put my hand inside my mouth like a retard.

[TIGERZZZ]

I always knew redheads were neanderthals..