If someone calls you a Neanderthal, don’t take it personally — it’s probably not your fault.

Researchers had once thought the pre-humans disappeared because of competition from more evolved species.

But a new study says it’s more likely due to the fact that their DNA became too diluted to have much of an effect on subsequent generations, The Sunday Times of London reported.

And that can be blamed on interbreeding between randy cavemen who lived between 35,000 and 120,000 years ago and the first humans, who migrated from Africa to Europe and were equally hot to trot.

Recent studies have found genes of the extinct species in 2 to 3 percent of modern Europeans.

Some researchers believe humans would have been better off without their ancient ancestors’ genes.

“High Neanderthal [gene] quotients tend to correspond to social fear and to autistic and depressive tendencies,” according to Glenn Geher, a psych professor at SUNY.