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by MichaelZuo 868 days ago
Don't be, apparently I'm more Neanderthal than 99% of people, a whopping 2% fully Neanderthal. And I've heard it can go as high as 3% total.
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East Asians apparently have a higher percentage of Neanderthal dna than Europeans, with it going as high as 4%. It's hard to believe that at 2% it's greater than 99% of people, since 2% seems rather average for the average East Asian and the East Asian population being 1.7B or so. East Asians also have Denisovans dna as well.
I believe 23andme rounds down, so I could be at 2.49% and it would still show 2%. Anyways it's just a fun statistic based on probably not a proportionally representative sample of the entire human population, but what they have on hand.
What are the extra proporties you possess?
Aversion to electric vehicles as cutting out the floorboards is impossible?
Fred Flintstone is canonically a Cro-Magnon, and looks down on "cavemen" Neanderthals. At least in DC Comics.

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-705a3f3ef5c510706161f...

I get a few strands of really really thick hair on my head. Sometimes in my nose too.

Also, I once had a single piece of hair that turned from fully black to fully white back to fully black in a span of maybe a dozen cm. And a few strands that turn orange-reddish, all for no apparent reason.

Though I'm just guessing this is related, maybe it's pure chance.