occipital bun

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I'm trying to find information about people
occipital bun Europeans, but can not find information

I have a prominent occipital bun.

i heard it comes from neanderthals...or something. i have it too.

Lots of northerners have it, I think. My fiancee has a very large one. I don't have one.

gee, i wonder if that anatomical feature is what causes my hair to come to a "point" at the neckline.

The first thing that term brought to mind is Princess Leia's hairstyle...

All I know is that I find it strange why they relate the bun to neanderthals when the same feature is found very commonly in African bushmen and Australian aborigines.. the Neanderthal species did not live in those areas nor are those modern human populations connected by DNA to the neanderthal species.

The bun was found in early european peoples and still found infrequently in some northern scandinavian populations (in general european population its very rare) so ... this fact added to the above means its a trait left over from an earlier ancestor common to both modern human and neanderthal. Supporting this is the fact that the african bushmen and australian aborigines are known to be descendants of the most ancient hominid bloodlines.. some have even hypothesized they are hybrids of modern humans and earlier hominid.. H. Erectus (which survived almost up until the neanderthals died off... an impressive 1.8 million years! Thats a long time and a lot of chances to interbreed with more modern hominids)

The only earlier ancestor common to both which has the occipital bun as a prevalent feature of its skull is Homo heidelbergensis.

http://www.dnalc.org/view/15859-Homo-he ... -view.html

The 'bun' is thought to have evolved to help the earlier hominids, including some of the later ones (neanderthal and erectus) balance the weight from their more massive jaws and frontal skull structure (protruding eyebrow bone structure).

I think Siberian Neandertals hybridized with the primitive Australians and Papuans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisova_hominin

I think the first Europeans were the occipital bun because their ancestors included Neanderthal lineage.