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Most European men descend from a handful of Bronze Age forefathers
Science Daily ^ | 05/27/2015 | University of Leicester

Posted on 05/27/2015 10:33:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Geneticists from the University of Leicester have discovered that most European men descend from just a handful of Bronze Age forefathers, due to a 'population explosion' several thousand years ago.

The project, which was funded by the Wellcome Trust, was led by Professor Mark Jobling from the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics and the study is published in the journal Nature Communications.

The research team determined the DNA sequences of a large part of the Y chromosome, passed exclusively from fathers to sons, in 334 men from 17 European and Middle Eastern populations.

This research used new methods for analysing DNA variation that provides a less biased picture of diversity, and also a better estimate of the timing of population events.

This allowed the construction of a genealogical tree of European Y chromosomes that could be used to calculate the ages of branches. Three very young branches, whose shapes indicate recent expansions, account for the Y chromosomes of 64% of the men studied.

Professor Jobling said: "The population expansion falls within the Bronze Age, which involved changes in burial practices, the spread of horse-riding and developments in weaponry. Dominant males linked with these cultures could be responsible for the Y chromosome patterns we see today."

In addition, past population sizes were estimated, and showed that a continuous swathe of populations from the Balkans to the British Isles underwent an explosion in male population size between 2000 and 4000 years ago.

This contrasts with previous results for the Y chromosome, and also with the picture presented by maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA, which suggests much more ancient population growth.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ancestry; ancientautopsies; ancientnavigation; bronzeage; epigraphyandlanguage; europe; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; indoeuropeans; mitochondrialdna; mtdna; neolithic
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To: SunkenCiv

Those handful were rockin’ and singin’: (with apologies to the Beach Boys)

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
We’re gettin’ real cool head
Get around round round I get around
Cause all the cuties like us instead

I’m gettin’ bugged walkin’ up and down this same old strip
I gotta finda new place where the ladies are hip

My buddies and me are getting real well known
And their boyfriends know us know us and they leave us alone

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
I’m a real cool head
Get around round round I get around
I’m makin’ real good bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Get around round round oooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo

We always take my club cause it’s never been beat
And we’ve never missed yet with the girls we meet

None of the guys go steady cause it wouldn’t be right
To leave their best girl home on a Saturday night

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
I’m a real cool head
Get around round round I get around
I never have to stay and wed
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round


61 posted on 05/28/2015 8:52:55 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those handful were rockin’ and singin’: (with apologies to the Beach Boys)

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
We’re gettin’ real cool head
Get around round round I get around
Cause all the cuties like us instead

I’m gettin’ bugged walkin’ up and down this same old strip
I gotta finda new place where the ladies are hip

My buddies and me are getting real well known
And their boyfriends know us know us and they leave us alone

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
I’m a real cool head
Get around round round I get around
I’m makin’ real good bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Get around round round oooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo

We always take my club cause it’s never been beat
And we’ve never missed yet with the girls we meet

None of the guys go steady cause it wouldn’t be right
To leave their best girl home on a Saturday night

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
I’m a real cool head
Get around round round I get around
I never have to stay and wed
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round


62 posted on 05/28/2015 8:53:22 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Tom Dudley? That puritan catholic bastard? He got kicked out of England, and paid off with Massachusetts bay colony. Later founded Harvard. Married his daughter, Anne, off to William Bradstreet, who became the next Governor-General of Mass. Bay Colony. Anne Bradstreet wrote some trash poetry the you probably had to read in college.

Never heard of them, cousin.


63 posted on 05/29/2015 12:33:06 AM PDT by patton (The GBU45. Delivered in 30 minutes, or its free.)
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To: patton

I know.

What a bunch of white trash.

Take care, cuz.


64 posted on 05/29/2015 5:39:07 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: SeekAndFind

At a recent family reunion one of my cousins said:

Cousin: “Just don’t go digging too far back in the family history.”
Me: “Why not? You afraid I’ll find someone of color?”
Cousin: “Hell no! You might find a yankee!”


65 posted on 10/20/2015 2:40:46 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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