Posted on 05/09/2013 4:00:33 AM PDT by Renfield
From Ireland to the Balkans, Europeans are basically one big family, closely related to one another for the past thousand years, according to a new study of the DNA of people from across the continent.
The study, co-authored by Graham Coop, a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, will be published May 7 in the journal PLoS Biology.
"What's remarkable about this is how closely everyone is related to each other. On a genealogical level, everyone in Europe traces back to nearly the same set of ancestors only a thousand years ago," Coop said.
"This was predicted in theory over a decade ago, and we now have concrete evidence from DNA data," Coop said, adding that such close kinship likely exists in other parts of the world as well....
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Basque. They had ugly women, or a geological isolation anomaly. Perhaps, predating current understanding of a long regional ice age. Regardless, Good folks, love the Basque. Great proto-language. Most of my neighbors are so, designed.
"Recent genetic samples from remains in Illinois show that the rare European DNA was around centuries before European exploration. Today, haplogroup X is found in about 20,000 American Indians."
Well, this is just evidence that can be interpreted as validation of Steve Sailer’s concept of race as a large, partially-inbred, extended family.
Of course, perhaps it can be interpreted otherwise, too.
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