Genes Promoting Fertility Are Found in Europeans

New York Times ^ | January 16, 2005 | Nicholas Wade

[SunkenCiv]

Redheads are always makin' trouble. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

"In some Icelanders, the Decode team found, the section runs in the standard direction but in others it is flipped. Looking for any physical consequence, the Decode researchers found that women carrying the flipped or inverted section tend to have slightly more children."

Thanks. I haven't read it in entire yet, but if this study was done in Iceland, even with the Vikings sailing all devil-may-care in the northern Atlantic (until the Little Ice Age hit and put on the brakes), islands tend to concentrate mutations in the population.

It also occurs to me that, if this is at all an old mutation, then the "slightly more children" factor, over generations, would tend to make it a fairly commonplace snip of code. :')

[ValerieUSA]

Stay on topic:
Redheads are always makin' babies...

okay, let's go back to trouble.

[SunkenCiv]

What, right now? [ducks, runs]

[ValerieUSA]

You got the duck gene instead?

[SunkenCiv]

I've got a little of the goose gene too. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[GraniteStateConservative]

I said your review was helpful on about 10 of your reviews. Then, my ADD kicked in and I lost interest.

You should tell people in your FR tagline you review salad dressing. I bet you'll get interesting FReepmails.

[SunkenCiv]

Just the one time. And it was Green Goddess, which is GGG-ping-list related. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
· Google · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology magazine · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Mirabilis · Texas AM Anthropology News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · · History or Science & Nature Podcasts · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[SunkenCiv]