Neanderthal Ritual

[SOMALI GENERAL]

An elaborate 'Flower burial' was discovered in the Shanidar Cave (Iraqi Kurdistan). This finding suggests that Neanderthals had cultural complexity of the highest order.

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200218073450.htm

Good to know our very distant ancestors were a sophisticated bunch.

 

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Speaking of Neanderthals, why is my N variants lower than anyone on my relatives list? It's 54

 

[Apollo]

Speaking of Neanderthals, why is my N variants lower than anyone on my relatives list? It's 54

Welcome back, the number of neanderthal variants on 23andMe is kind of random* and not really interactive of ancestry difference.

*Although not always, but often, between Somalis.