# I'm 3% Neanderthal! And...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 21, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531 "2015-01-21T23:27:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531/21 "2015-01-22T21:44:37Z")

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> [@April\_R](#):
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> I have the asparagus pee thing. I didn’t know it was genetic. I thought it happens to everyone. Hummmm, learned something new!

Nope, I don’t get asparagus pee. I do, however, have the cilantro-tastes-like-soap gene.

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**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531/22 "2015-01-22T23:28:41Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Nope, I don’t get asparagus pee. I do, however, have the cilantro-tastes-like-soap gene.

I did some research and it appears that everyone gets smelly pee but the difference is only some people can smell it. So while you may not smell the asparagus pee, other people will 😉

> **[Asparagus Makes ALL Our Pee Smell, Whether You Can Smell It Or Not](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asparagus-pee_n_5ab932e3e4b0decad04cc745)**
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> In a cruel twist of evolution, some of us can smell it and some of us can't.

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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531/23 "2015-01-23T00:52:02Z")

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> [@Dr.Drake](#):
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> The time depth between “Neanderthal” and “Germanic / Celtic” is so different, they’re not really comparable. The ancestors of the Germans and the Celts, linguistically at least, were the same people for the 38,000 years following the last of the Neanderthals.

This.

The descendants of the people who lived in Germany 40k years ago are likely spread across the world by now, and the people living in Germany now are probably 1/6 Roman, 1/6 Celt, 1/6 Slav, 1/6 Some-Forgotten-Civilization, etc.

That guy that checks your ticket at the Boston Amtrak station might be a descendant of a Roman general. Or maybe a Viking.

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