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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>>…This came up about a year ago, but I don’t recall the details. Who here has done anything with 23AndMe? I just got my results back yesterday and it has blown my mind. <span style='color:#888888'>spike</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gina Miller<br><br></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I sent my DNA out a couple weeks ago - what did your results tell you?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Gina "Nanogirl" Miller<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.nanogirl.com">www.nanogirl.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.nanoindustries.com">www.nanoindustries.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Nanogirl! We have missed you, pal!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regarding my results, I am still trying to digest it. More later, after I figure out what I am looking atwardly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span> what did your results tell you?...nanogirl<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well for starters… that I am a goddam caveman! But that this is a good thing. Perhaps. Depending on how one views it. I am busily learning what it means that I have so much Neanderthal DNA, but now I know why my great^974 grandfather had that reputation: he was always slipping away for a little fling with that sly little Cro Magnon trollop, that’s why. Of course that trollop is, um, technically… my… great^974 grandmother. But still.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What I was hoping is to find others who are high Neanderthals. I am 99<sup>th</sup> percentile in that. My friend who talked me into doing 23AndMe is 96<sup>th</sup> percentile. I was hoping some of the cavemen on ExI would share their Neanderthal percentages, so we can derive some kind of wild-ass theory on that. We could go on the Mensa site and see if we have 23ers there who would share their Neanderthal percentages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Idea: we could get a high-Neanderthal percentage singles group together. Then we encourage the highest N to copulate with the highest N, the offspring form their own group, repeat, until we eventually in a few thousand years, breed new Neanderthals! We could even give them some cutesy name, such as Neonderthals. {8^D It would be like taking a group of cur dogs and selectively breeding them to produce wolves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I sent my 23 my spit kit on 3 April and the results were ready on 30 May, so about 8 weeks it took them to call me a caveman. Oh by the way Gina, you and I may be distant cousins. 23 found over 900 genetic matches, including one who I think is a direct descendant of the man for whom I named my own son.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Any other Neanderthals present? If so you are among friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>spike</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>