Posted on 12/30/2005 5:03:20 PM PST by blam
It ain't easy being cheesey.
He is a Pict.
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The Congo has REACHED the Stone Age?
"There has been an idea that most modern European are descended from farmers that came in from the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, reaching Britain about 6,000 years ago," Sykes told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "This kind of evidence shows that is probably not true, and that modern Britons are in fact descended from the earlier inhabitants like Cheddar Man who existed on hunting and gathering and who were not farmers."
What an amazing leap in deduction! Why give these people any credibility? They know neither the 1st postulate nor the 2nd!
Fathers can be influential tooBiologists have warned for some years that paternal mitochondria do penetrate the human egg and survive for several hours... Erika Hagelberg from the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues... were carrying out a study of mitochondrial DNAs from hundreds of people from Papua-New Guinea and the Melanesian islands in order to study the history of human migration into this region of the western Pacific... People from all three mitochondrial groups live on Nguna. And, in all three groups, Hagelberg's group found the same mutation, a mutation previously seen only in an individual from northern Europe, and nowhere else in Melanesia, or for that matter anywhere else in the world... Adam Eyre-Walker, Noel Smith and John Maynard Smith from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK confirm this view with a mathematical analysis of the occurrence of the so-called 'homoplasies' that appear in human mitochondrial DNA... reanalysis of a selection of European and African mitochondrial DNA sequences by the Sussex researchers suggests that recombination is a far more likely cause of the homoplasies, as they find no evidence that these sites are particularly variable over all lineages.
by Eleanor LawrenceIs Eve older than we thought?"Two studies prove that the estimation of both when and where humanity first arose could be seriously flawed... The ruler scientists have been using is based on genetic changes in mitochondria, simple bacteria that live inside us and control the energy requirements of our cells. Mitochondria are passed from mother to daughter and their genes mutate at a set rate which can be estimated - so many mutations per 1,000 years... However, these calculations are based upon a major assumption which, according to Prof John Maynard Smith, from Sussex University, is 'simply wrong'. The idea that underpins this dating technique is that mitochondria, like some kinds of bacteria, do not have sex... Two groups of researchers, Prof Maynard Smith and colleagues Adam Eyre-Walker and Noel Smith, also from Sussex, and Dr Erika Hagelberg and colleagues from the University of Otago, New Zealand, have found that mitochondria do indeed have sex - which means that genes from both males and females is mixed and the DNA in their offspring is very different... Prof Maynard Smith and his colleagues stumbled over mitochondria having sex in the process of tracking the spread of bacterial resistance to meningitis... For the 'out-of-Africa' theory to hold water, the first population would have to have been very small. Sexually rampant mitochondria may put paid to this idea. Maynard Smith thinks that the origin of humanity is much older - may be twice as old - which, according to Eyre-Walker, means we are likely to have evolved in many different areas of the world and did not descend from Eve in Africa."
by Sanjida O'Connell 15th April 1999
We talking Arlington Rte7A?
Yes
Less than that. Copper working started about 8,000 years ago, but copper smelting, that extracting the metal from the ore, only about 5,000 years ago. Agriculture only started about 8,000 years ago as well, probably in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq.
Were there several species of small furry animals gathered together In a cave and grooving with him?
If he does, or doesn't, the line dies with him. It would have to continue through his female maternal cousins. Mitochondrial DNA is completely inherited from the mother. This is because it's not in the nucleus of the cell, where all that sexual stuff goes on, but rather out in the mitochondria, which are present in the ovum before it's ever fertilized, and to which the sperm does not contribute anything.
Hmm, 1066 (William the Conqueror and all that) is 940 years ago. But the British Royals are so intermixed with royals from all over Europe, they are hardly British at all, at least nothing like this guy.
Of course since mitochondrial DNA comes from the mother only, this guys N-great grandmother could have been raped by one of those Normans, or earlier by raiding Vikings. What color is his hair?
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