Posted on 10/12/2013 5:23:02 PM PDT by Dysart
In genetics, it’s not just the living who advance the field: DNA preserved in the brittle bones of our ancestors can provide significant insight into our genetic history. Such is the case with a new genetic history of Europe, traced by an international team of researchers and published today in Science. By creating a seamless genetic map from 7,500 to 3,500 years ago in one geographic region, scientists discovered that the genetic diversity of modern day Europe can’t be explained by a single migration, as previously thought, but by multiple migrations coming from a range of areas in modern day Europe...
To write the genetic history of Europe is to glance into the evolution of a Western culture and, often, to be greeted with more questions than answers: Why do 45 percent of Europeans share a distinct kind mitochondrial DNA (DNA passed down through the maternal line) known as haplogroup H? What causes one type of mitochondrial DNA to become dominant over another kind? Can changes in an archaeological record mirror changes in a genetic record?...
By comparing the timing of these genetic changes with a timeline of archaeological finds in central Europe, and by looking up the cultural origins of new artifacts that pop up in the timeline when these genetic changes happened, researchers suggest that the genetic history of Europeans was not only affected by a migration of farmers from the Near East, but by subsequent migrations from cultures in to the west (what is now the Iberian Peninsula) and east (what is now Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and other modern Eastern European countries).
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.smithsonianmag.com ...
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Extract: “can’t be explained by a single migration, as previously thought, but by multiple migrations....”
That shows the ignorance of history by the writer. I remember in high school world history class being taught about the migrations of peoples into Europe from the Middle East and Asia, aka, eastern regions of Russia. but then I was in high school 1961-65, before political correctness took over the teaching of world history and western civilization.
Genetic Roots of Ashkenazi Jews
The Scientist | 10/8/13 | Kate Yandell
Posted on 10/08/2013 11:57:29 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3076370/posts
Let’s send them 30 million undocumented Mexicans and see what happens.
Thanks for the ping!
That shows the ignorance of history by the writer.
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Most definitely. You and I are in the last generation to be taught the truth, sadly.
A manage a trosi! Death by sex! Who’s on top!
Thanks. I think ancient DNA research is still in its infancy and will reveal many more surprises.
Mexicans genetically are nearly 50% European
Did Cortez have anything to do with that?
How did you find a 5-year old post?
When the Spanish came they inadvertently brought a lot of Old world diseases that killed off the inhabitants well before Spanish steel came into play. As an aside, the germs spread out well before Europeans -- in Mississippi the cities there were contacted by tribes who met other tribes who had met one Spaniard, but smallpox, etc spread and people died like flies
Males also are far more susceptible to diseases than females, so far fewer men due to disease and then fewer still due to war.
the Spaniards mostly sent across men, who intermarried or otherwise slept with local woman. That's why Mexicans are mainly European today -- except in the deep south where you may find a full blooded Mayan
The Mexican revolution day, Sept 15, is the day Maximlian, an Austrian and ruler of the country, was overthrown and shot.
Lots of European influence in the New World gene pool.
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