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Europeans drawn from three 'tribes'
BBC News Science and Environment ^ | 09/17/2014 | By Paul Rincon

Posted on 09/17/2014 11:19:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed with one another within the last 7,000 years, Nature journal reports.

Blue-eyed, swarthy hunters mingled with brown-eyed, pale skinned farmers as the latter swept into Europe from the Near East.

But another, mysterious population with Siberian affinities also contributed to the genetic landscape of the continent.

The findings are based analysis of the genomes of nine ancient Europeans.

Agriculture originated in the Near East - in modern Syria, Iraq and Israel - before expanding into Europe around 7,500 years ago.

Multiple lines of evidence suggested this new way of life was spread not just via the exchange of ideas, but by a wave of migrants, who interbred with the indigenous European hunter-gatherers they encountered on the way.

But assumptions about European origins were based largely on the genetic patterns of living people. The science of analysing genomic DNA from ancient bones has put some of the prevailing theories to the test, throwing up a few surprises.

Genomic DNA contains the biochemical instructions for building a human, and resides within the nucleus of our cells.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; blueeyes; dietandcuisine; europeans; genepool; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mutation; paulrincon; tribes
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1 posted on 09/17/2014 11:19:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 09/17/2014 11:19:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Beat you by two minutes ;-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3205024/posts


3 posted on 09/17/2014 11:22:06 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I’m a descendant of the Mom’baks.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 11:24:40 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They have based their conclusions on the DNA of two people in Europe 7,000 and 8,000 years ago? That can’t be accurate at all. Last I heard King Tut was Irish.


5 posted on 09/17/2014 11:25:32 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Okay, then where did the redheads come from?


6 posted on 09/17/2014 11:27:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting.

Some Nazis tried to prove the Aryan race originated in Tibet which I thought was quite bizarre.


7 posted on 09/17/2014 11:27:23 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: BenLurkin

The Celts.


8 posted on 09/17/2014 11:28:03 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: SeekAndFind
They could figure this all out from 9 individuals?

We could save a lot of money by just selecting 9 people to decide who will be President. Of course it would have to be the right 9 people.

9 posted on 09/17/2014 11:32:41 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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“We could save a lot of money by just selecting 9 people to decide who will be President.”

See Isaac Asimov’s 1955 short story “Franchise.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_%28short_story%29


10 posted on 09/17/2014 11:46:10 AM PDT by JackOfVA
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To: mountainlion

King Tut was Irish

Close, but you’ve got it backwards.

I’ve studied things Egyptic
Those writings weird and cryptic
Upon the tombs that dot Sahara’s sands
I’ve solved each strange inscription
Left by each wise Egyptian
And hold the mystic secret in my hands
The Irish were Egyptians long ago
Just read between the lines and you will know

Chorus
It must have been the Irish who built the Pyramids
For no one else could carry up the bricks
It must have been a Doyle who dug the river Nile
For no one but an Irishman would fight a crocodile
I think these Micks were Turks Mohammedans and Ghurks
They speak of “Irish Turkey” till today
Cleopatra was a colleen who came from Connemara
She lost her nationality while roaming in Sahara
So all the Hooligans and all the Dooligans
Must have been Egyptians long ago
It must have been the Irish who built the Pyramids
For no one else could carry up the bricks
It must have been a Doyle who dug the river Nile
For no one but an Irishman would fight a crocodile

Now ev’ry Houlihan once drove a caravan
I’ll say the same for ev’ry Mac and O
And when Moses went to Egypt and saw those Irish faces
He took the name O’Callahan and changed it to Oasis
So all the Hooligans and all the Dooligans
Must have been Egyptians long ago


11 posted on 09/17/2014 11:52:40 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: SeekAndFind

That map is misleading. We know from history that the 2nd group didn’t migrate mainly through Anatolia, but by crossing the strip of land between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, then turning west.

Also, and this is typical, their dating is misleading. The migration may have begun around that time, but it happened in a number of waves, with the largest groups of immigrants not arriving until thousands of years later.


12 posted on 09/17/2014 11:59:01 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Just being a bit sarcastic. The egyptologists did the Tut DNA but did not release the results. PBS or someone scanned the exhibit with a TV camera and some doctor read the DNA results and said Tut was Irish. Later they said that half of the males in Europe were related to Tut. This was published in a DNA ancestry magazine.


13 posted on 09/17/2014 12:00:23 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

See Genesis 9 and 10. We ALL are descended from 3 guys Ham, Shem and Japheth.


14 posted on 09/17/2014 12:20:20 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: mountainlion

It’s a song my grandfather used to sing.

There’s another one about the Jewish guy who wants to be buried in an Irish cemetery, because he’d be sure to be in G_d’s presence. I’ve never found the words to that one.

You might guess my grandfather was neither Egyptian nor Jewish.


15 posted on 09/17/2014 12:38:06 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: SunkenCiv

FYI


16 posted on 09/17/2014 12:48:59 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Later they said that half of the males in Europe were related to Tut.

That makes the case for murder, and explains why they chiseled his name off all the monuments ....

17 posted on 09/17/2014 12:56:19 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Boogieman

There is actually a lot of DNA evidence that there was also a southern Mediterranean route via Crete, Sicily / Italy to Spain.


18 posted on 09/17/2014 1:32:32 PM PDT by fatez ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: JackOfVA
Thanks. I was not aware of that short story. A computer which accurately predicted who would win the 1952 election? Amazing!

The 1876 election came down to a commission of 15 men--5 from the House of Representatives, 5 from the Senate, 5 from the Supreme Court--to decide the 20 disputed electoral votes. If all of them went to the Republican candidate Hayes, he would be President by a vote of 185-184. If any of them went to the Democrat Tilden, he would be President. The 15 men included 7 Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 1 Independent (one of the Supreme Court justices). The Independent did not want to have half the country mad at him so he managed to get chosen for a Senate seat and resigned his Supreme Court position. The remaining justices were all Republicans so the commission wound up with an 8-7 Republican majority and Hayes became President.

19 posted on 09/17/2014 7:44:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: US Navy Vet

I found this site interesting. . . .http://lifehopeandtruth.com/prophecy/12-tribes-of-israel/


20 posted on 09/17/2014 9:05:49 PM PDT by Maudeen
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