How Neanderthal are you … and can you blame your DNA? – personality quiz

If you ’re brutish and promiscuous it could be your ancestors’ fault, says Ben AmbridgeYou ’ve heard of your IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) but what about your NQ (Neanderthal Quotient)? A newstudy from the State University of New York analysed 200 Homo sapiens to see which personality traits they shared with our distant cousins Homo neanderthalensis. So, what about you? How often (never/occasionally/often) do you …(a) Fantasise about sex with someone other than your partner? (b) Avoid talking to people you don ’t know very well? (c) Feel so nervous that nothing could calm you down? (d) Show a lack of imaginativeness in new situations?Continue reading...
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