A modern-day person living in the United Kingdom shares ancestors with people across the Europe. These maps show where the distant cousins of modern-day people in the UK live, at three different levels of relatedness (recent on top, older on the bottom). Bigger circles mean more ancestors, and numbers give average number of shared genetic ancestors. The further back in time, the more widespread the shared ancestors. Credit: Peter Ralph/USC and Graham Coop/UC Davis.
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We already knew that.
The nobels reproduced like rabbits and they worked everyone else to death.
"The past thousand years" sounds odd to me. Obviously we are all related if you go far enough back, and studies of this sort are merely parsing minor differences within the same tribe. That said, I would have guessed that to find "all Europeans as one big family," one would have needed to go back perhaps 2,500 to 3,000 years, if not to the end of the last ice age. The rise of agricultural and, later, urban cultures tends to fix people in place.
See Genesis 10(Table of Nations). Europeans Primarily descend from Noah’s Son Japheth.
r1b1c2 here. Anyone with an R (most prevalant in Europe) pretty much has a common ancestor about 25,000 years ago.
No mention of the Basques, who are the odd men out in Europe, at least linguistically.
“The origin of the Basques and the Basque language is a controversial topic that has given place to numerous hypotheses about their origin and so far none of them is conclusive or has been completely proven.
“The ancient language of the Basque people, the Basque language, which developed from the Proto-Basque language, is the only Pre-Indo-European language that is still extant in contemporary Europe.
“The current Basque language is a language isolate. The Basques have long been supposed to be a remnant of a pre-Indo-European population of Europe. However, this assumption has come under increasing criticism as genetic and linguistic studies have become more sophisticated. No firm conclusion has been reached on their origins.”
All Europeans are probably related to the half dozen ancestors who survived Europe’s glorious history: the plagues, the Muslim invasions, the Huns, the endless wars, the Holocaust, the pogroms and purges, the revolutions, the glorious leaderships of Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin.
Was the limited gene pool both cause and effect?
And some families are "closer" than others.
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"Recent genetic samples from remains in Illinois show that the rare European DNA was around centuries before European exploration. Today, haplogroup X is found in about 20,000 American Indians."
Well, this is just evidence that can be interpreted as validation of Steve Sailer’s concept of race as a large, partially-inbred, extended family.
Of course, perhaps it can be interpreted otherwise, too.
