DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals Surprise Some 200 Years Later

Science Alert ^ | 18 February 2024 | MIKE MCRAE

[blam]

"I’m surprised they didn’t “discover” that his great great grandfather was black which would explain his musical talent. It is black history month after all."

Ditto when I saw the headline.

[MotorCityBuck]

HA!!

[billorites]

[Ezekiel]

extrapair paternity event

Now there's a euphemism worth note.

[Red Badger]

The letter ‘V’ in Morse Code is ‘Dit-Dit-Dit-Dah’.............

[Mariner]

His late string quartets achieved the pinnacle of art.

He was both mostly bedridden and deaf when he wrote them without even a piano. Which he could not hear anyway.

[Colorado Doug]

I did not read the article. Is this the one that Netflix commissioned and determined that he was actually Black?

[Red Badger]

No, the Germans did this one...................................

[Bigg Red]

often?
many?

Seriously doubt it.

[bimboeruption]

>Genetic testing of everyone would reveal that the “fairer sex” often strays and that many men wear the cuckold’s horns.<

I always thought that my dad was Polish. Three years ago I took the Ancestry DNA test and found out otherwise. I took the test again and it verified that my bio dad was Scottish.

I would have liked to talked to my mother about this, but she died years ago.

[Honest Nigerian]

Did you study for that first test?
Different results after you studied before the second test?

[bimboeruption]

>Did you study for that first test?
Different results after you studied before the second test?<

I didn’t study for either one.

You could have knocked me over with a feather. I still can’t believe it.

[MayflowerMadam]

It says the hair was “clipped”. I thought there has to be a follicle in order to extract DNA

[Red Badger]

I have no idea....................

[bgill]

The old saying - Mama’s baby, Daddy’s maybe.

[drSteve78]

Gluten intolerance, colon cancer.

[Red Badger]

I tend to think it was Cirrhosis...................

[antceecee]

Good point. I thought same.

[Veto!]

But of course the male sex never strays.

I(Sarcasm alert)

[SunkenCiv]

• DNA From Beethoven's Hair Unlocks Medical and Family Secrets [03/24/2023]
• German pop singer calls for Beethoven's body to be exhumed for a racial DNA test [10/04/2021]
• Woke Art Centre Celebrates Beethoven Birthday with Portrait of Composer as a Black Man [12/18/2020]
• Vox calls Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 'a symbol of exclusion and elitism' [09/16/2020]
• Was Beethoven Black? Twitter Debates Race of German Composer [07/03/2020]
• Artificial intelligence will be used to complete composer's unfinished Tenth Symphony [12/13/2019]
• Beethoven was black? [11/28/2008]
• Beethoven's Doctor Accidentally Poisoned Him, Pathologist Claims [08/29/2007]
• Expert: Beethoven inadvertently poisoned by doctor [08/28/2007]
• Lead Did in Beethoven? [12/16/2005]
• Lead poisoning made Beethoven grumpy [12/07/2005]
• Beethoven Died From Lead Poisoning [12/07/2005]