You might be a Neanderthal …

[guy]

Dupuytren’s contracture is a potentially crippling fibrotic condition of the fingers being permanently bent in a flexed position.

Here is an interesting article suggesting that having Dupuytren’s contracture might be a genetic trait inherited from the Neanderthals. The video and article below describes this association.
 

 

 

Because of its frequency in some populations, Dupuytren’s contracture has been called the Viking disease or Celtic hand. In Norway, about 30% of men over 60 have the condition and in the United Kingdom, 25% of the men over 65 have the condition. (Above is President Reagan who famously suffered from the condition.)

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/mysterious-viking-disease-linked-to-neanderthal-dna

 

On the subject of Neanderthals, here’s a short video from the BBC suggesting that Neanderthals had a high-pitched voice:

 

 

Here’s an interesting post about human and Neanderthal interactions:

 

 

Edited March 4 by guy

[guidoLaMoto]

We've been blaming the drier for all those missing socks for all these years.....I wonder if it's really the washer's fault?

The recent fad is to blame the Neandertals for various genetic traits in Humans, but we had a common ancestor, so maybe that was the source?...and these experts always seem to forget that gene A has the same chance of occurring in species 1 as it does in species 2....it doesn't have to be passed between the species.

An ulnar nerve palsy in St Peter or another early Pope has been blamed as the source of Benediction Hand - the hand held up with thumb and first two fingers extended but the third & fourth curled-- but maybe it's really due to Dupuytren's Contracture? https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=132993 ....

...or maybe Peter was just shouting down the stairs to the innkeeper to send up three more beers to the Upper Room?

Edited March 4 by guidoLaMoto