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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting face. Not something that is familiar to me. I always wonder about certain physical “types” throughout history and how they must wax and wane depending on migration, conquest and various natural factors. Why we look the way we do now and how people looked thousands of years ago. Would we recognize our ancestors?


17 posted on 11/01/2015 1:17:46 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

We only get half of our chromosomes from each parent, and each half is mixed and matched from each half they got from each of their parents, IOW, we have 46 lines, 23 from each side of the family (give or take consanguinous relationships). By the time one gets back to the 6th-great-grand, there are 64 names on the list, but at least 18 haven’t passed down any chromosomes (again, give or take...). They are, however, still the ancestors.


27 posted on 11/01/2015 5:26:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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