Posted on 04/13/2005 3:33:59 AM PDT by Pharmboy
They're Pict on?
Linguistics will suffice if there are inscriptions found in context, and that will A) only tell when some specific language speakers lived somewhere, and B) only go back so far. Trying as this study will to use population stability (multiregionalism) to sell "out of Africa" (replacement) is unintentionally ironic, amusing, and bemusing.
Way cool. I'm going to do it. Wonder if they are doing just mtDNA or Y-chromosome, too?
Thanks for the ping!
"Male migration"/
The only reason a male will get up and go is if there is more beer somewhere else, or more women - in that order.
Uhhhhhh. I thought the Garden of Eden (Adam) was in Iraq?
A 4 groaner...excellent.
In Hebrew school I learned that the Garden of Eden was where the Tigris and Euphrates met...so, my Rabbi would agree with you.
This sounds like a fascinating project. Male membersof part of my family have donn this cheek swab DNA test in attempt to differentiate themselves from another family of the same name. It seems to have worked. Neither family seems to have any common members, thus proving that they are two separate groups bearing the same name. Understandable, but confusing to their descendants.
Sorry for the typos. My fingers are too cold this AMto work properly! Happy to agree with a Rabbi.
"No, you leftist idiots, it's just describing what's there."
There is at least one other area that falls into this category - intelligence. The PC and left groups studiously avoid this area. But the evidence is clear - two people of above average intelligence have a better than 50-50 chance of having an above average intelligence child. There are many other factors, of course, but genetics plays a role.
Two major groups fight this, blacks and Jews. With blacks it is easy to understand since for many years they were considered inferior. My experience does not support this. But Jews are another question. I think it is because they have been picked on for millenia and don't wan't this kind of information to play a role or be distorted. Hitler thought Jews were inferior and he sought to prove it. Obviously that didn't work.
There was one study NAZI "Scientists" did that relates to this. They studied how Jews reacted to the following game (I may have the details wrong, but the gist is correct). Give a pair of dice. Tell the subject that when he/she rolls 6 identical rolls in a row, he will be taken out and shot (and of course, being NAZIs they followed through). Jews reacted in two ways. Some played as slowly as possible to stretch out the time. Others played rapidly as possible since they knew the ultimate outcome and presumably wanted "to get it over". Then they rounded up a couple of Nordic types (Norwegians I believe) and did the same thing to show the superiority of the Nordic races. Unfortunately for the NAZI "Scientists", the Nordics behaved the same way. Needless to say, that project was cancelled, and I believe it's mentor was also eliminated. How would you like to practice science in NAZI Germany or Stalinist Russia?
It is easy to see the resistance of these groups to this kind of information, but I think there should be a way of doing these studies without stirring up too much controversy.
I am looking forward to this study in your post. I am not happy with the National Geographic, but the data should be very revealing, if the crackpot spins that are sure to follow can be minimized.
There once was a man named Adam,
With wife Eve and sons Able and Cain,
And a serpant who gave not a damn,
So they were pushed out of Eden, that's plain.
Their family beget families, and so on,
And it grew to outrival the sea,
Till a man named Noah built a boat, mon,
He set sail by the twos, not the threes.
But Lucy is everyone's auntie,
That's what digger-types like to say,
They can't 'splain how she got in the family,
But they claim she did, once, anyway!
Sorry if the frivolity is out of place. I'm just in a good mood, and a human race geneological tree sounded a bit odd to me.
Tracing Humanity's Genetic Roots
More at the Link.
15mm miniatures. Do you game?
I bet this "project" will be infultrated by some groups that want to establish genetic "imputirty" in OTHER cultures.
and that little clip will be used to justify the islamists takin all of europe.
When Wells did his earlier, more limited study, he used only the Y.
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