[gleeaikin]

I have always been of the opinion that my late husband of Scots ancestry had significant Neanderthal genetics. He was massive boned, short legged, long torsoed, very muscular, red hair and light blue eyes, very hairy all over including his shoulder, weak chin, faint brow ridges, quick temper and warrior mentality. He also had a mans growth at age 13. What traits do you have that you felt made you part cavewoman?

[A_perfect_lady]

Some of the same: blue eyes, hair brown but reddish in the sun, long waist, muscular frame, and with a real tendency toward the blunt approach, particularly in romantic matters. (Dragging someone back to the cave by the hair always seemed like a perfectly understandable approach to me.) I'm also a big fan of revenge, and vigilante justice.

My family used to laugh at my tendency to want to fix malfunctioning equipment with a hammer... whatever the problem, beating the crap out of it will either fix it or teach it a lesson, I felt. And I could never open a box of dried goods correctly, or even at the right end. To this day, I cannot operate most technology. It takes me a year to figure out a new cellphone and I am NOT getting a smart phone because I don't need anything in my purse that's smarter than I am.

Now of course, most of this, an anthropology professor would tell you, is not how they'd describe a Neanderthal. But it's how I'd describe a cave man (well, cave woman) and I came to the conclusion in my 20s that I'm part cave woman. Then, as I said, I had my DNA tested and I really do have a higher percentage than the vast majority of humanity. Higher even than the majority of Europeans.