Do you have an Occipital Bun?

[Rædwald]

Yes, I do.

[PaleoEuropean]

I do have that large gap behind third molar, anyone else?

Did you have your wisdom teeth removed?

[Ülev]

Did you have your wisdom teeth removed?

no, still there, I am Homo Neanderthaliensis man

[PaleoEuropean]

no, still there, I am Homo Neanderthaliensis man

The day I got mine out they were almost all the way grown . I wish I kept them. I went through the pain of growing then the pain of surgery. I would rather be hit with a bat than have dental surgery again

[TheOldNorth]

I don’t know if i have it or not but i have a bump on my head. I have always thought it’s tuberculum turcum which belongs to Turkic people.

interesting, never knew of such a thing

[TheOldNorth]

An occipital bun is a prominent bulge or projection of the occipital bone at the back of the skull. It is important in scientific descriptions of classic Neanderthal crania. While common among many of humankind's ancestors, primarily robust relatives rather than gracile, the protrusion is rare in modern Homo sapiens.

Kinda makes sense because the people with the most neanderthal ancestry are northern populations


A study conducted by Lieberman, Pearson and Mowbray provides evidence that individuals with narrow heads (dolicocephalic) or narrow cranial bases and relatively large brains are more likely to have occipital buns as a means of resolving a spatial packing problem

if that's the case, I wonder why a meso like me has a prominent one

[TheOldNorth]

you sure you didn't inherit that one instead from an armenian great grandpa? lol

nah, got a jewish grandma, a anglo-german grandpa, and two anglo-celtic grandparents

[Snkves]

That is not an occipital bun by the way, that is just a rounded skull.

Yes, of course, I'm not talking about the little bump but the whole back of the skull.

[Crimean]

With age, brachycephaly increases - soon the head will become as symmetrically square as the father's.

[vader]

I have a large occipital bun

Spoiler!