[Nikas777]

To get serious - I think there are certain genes that get triggered because of environmental conditions. For example populations that live in malarial zones show the same genetic sequence which made many racists say that proved Greeks and Italians were linked to Sub Saharan Africans because they also show this genetic marker. But this was not an inherited marker and was triggered by the environment. That is as best as my limited understanding can describe.

But because of bad science and religion we have a people - the Lemba now forever linked to the lost tribe of Israel.

[wildbill]

Wasn’t there a TV documentary on the Lemba where they were trying to prove or disprove the Lemba ‘cultural memory’ of a connection with the Jews in their history.

I thought the show said the DNA showed their was some similarity in the DNA gene sequence. A random and rogue gene might not mean anything—but combine it with an oral history passed down from generation to generation over a thusand years or so and it makes me think there is something there.

People who are steeped in our modern written histories often deride these old cultural myths and legends passed down in an oral tradition, but remember the Hawaiian oral traditions about the sailing exploits of their ancestors from Tahiti turned out to be correct as I recall.