[MissCalico]

"We'll only know for sure by sampling intensively in the Alpine Valleys where Otzi was born."

Well let's hurry up already . . . it's only been 17 years.

[gov_bean_ counter]

"We'll only know for sure by sampling intensively in the Alpine Valleys where Otzi was born."

Which is still more than we know about Obie.

[Sacajaweau]

“Grant Money”...The gift that keeps giving!!

[MeanWestTexan]

Just an hunch, but I’m thinking that being stupid enough to wander off into the Alps with little clothing would be a negative factor in leaving offspring.

[dfwgator]

You mean the great George Gervin didn't have any kids?

[JoeProBono]

""Otzi," Italy's prehistoric iceman, probably does not have any modern day descendants"

[silverleaf]

If only he had made it to the party that night...who knows what might have happened?

[tophat9000]

He’s dead Jim!

[x]

Ancient iceman probably has no modern relatives

Maybe they just didn't want a 5,300 year old corpse showing up for the holidays and drinking all their liquor.

[dr_lew]

Men don’t pass on their mitochondrial DNA, so the rarity or otherwise of the iceman’s mitochondrial DNA has no bearing on the question of his possible descendants.

The “line” that is averred to be extinct includes his mother’s mother’s mother’s ... mother’s mother ) whoever is considered to be the “head of the line”, ) her daughters, daughters’ daughters , daughters’ daughters’ daughters, and so on to the present, and only the living sons of any of these “nth daughters.”

[Revolting cat!]

[WHBates]

Have they checked Miami?

[blam]

Ancient DNA

Ice Man - Otzi of Italy

Widely known as "Otzi (Oetzi)" the Iceman found in 1991 in the Italian Alps, is also known as "Similaun Man". Of the Neolithic era, Otzi lived between 3350-3300 B.C. in the "Copper Age". He was believed to be 46-years old when he died at the top of a mountain pass from wounds received.

Name - Iceman

Haplo - K

Haplotype - 16224C, 16311C

[uglybiker]

...probably has no modern relatives

Otzi was gay?

Might explain why somebody was shootin' arrows at him.

[SunkenCiv]

Genome-Wide Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Uncovers Population Structure in No. Europe
PLoS ONE | October 24, 2008
Salmela E, Lappalainen T, Fransson I, Andersen PM, Dahlman-Wright K, et al.
Posted on 10/30/2008 2:00:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2120039/posts

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[SunkenCiv]

This diagram works for most people, but not for folks with Down's Syndrome and a few other conditions. F is for father, M for mother; each of us has up to 64 great-great-great-great-grandcestors; no more than 46 of them has had even one chromosome pair reach you; even with the occasional crossing stream, there's no more than 46, and with crossing streams, could be less.

For those who don't know, this doesn't mean the other 18 (and all of their ancestors, plus half of the ancestors of the 46) are not your ancestors -- DUH! IOW, just because the chromosomes don't make it through, doesn't mean that Oetzi (for example) has no living descendants.

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